Visual analogue scales (VAS): Measuring instruments for the documentation of symptoms and therapy monitoring in cases of allergic rhinitis in everyday health care
Discussion: VAS can be used relatively simply and highly effectively to assess disease control. The VAS lends itself very well to digitization and has now been incorporated into a smartphone app (called Allergy Diary) to assess AR control and direct treatment decisions as part of an AR clinical decision support system (CDSS). MASK Rhinitis has developed this app, which is currently available in 15 different languages. (Source: Allergo Journal International)
Source: Allergo Journal International - January 18, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Visual analogue scales (VAS)
Discussion: VAS can be used relatively simply and highly effectively to assess disease control. The VAS lends itself very well to digitization and has now been incorporated into a smartphone app (called Allergy Diary) to assess AR control and direct treatment decisions as part of an AR clinical decision support system (CDSS). MASK Rhinitis has developed this app, which is currently available in 15 different languages. (Source: Allergo Journal International)
Source: Allergo Journal International - January 18, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
)) Abstracts of the 29th Spring Symposium of the German Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Mainz, March 30 –31, 2017
(Source: Allergo Journal International)
Source: Allergo Journal International - January 17, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Six years of INSTAND e. V. sIgE proficiency testing
ConclusionThe numerous publications that have found discrepancies in the sIgE results of the different suppliers did not change the status quo within the last six years. Unfortunately, this is unlikely to change until there is a characterized standard material with known values of sIgE. (Source: Allergo Journal International)
Source: Allergo Journal International - January 17, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
Carl Prausnitz Giles – family doctor and father of reagin detection
AbstractDr. Carl Prausnitz Giles was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1876, the son of Otto Prausnitz, a Physician in the army reserve of the King of Prussia and Edith Giles, daughter of George and Elizabeth Giles of Bonchurch, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom. Carl qualified in Medicine at the Universities of Leipzig, Kiel and Breslau. He began work at the Hamburg Hygiene Institute, undertaking diagnostic work on cholera, plague, typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis.
Carl frequently visited his mother ’s home in Bonchurch and became proficient in both German and English and obtained British medical qualifications, MRCS...
Source: Allergo Journal International - January 16, 2017 Category: Allergy & Immunology Source Type: research
