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January 19, 2017Allergo Journal International477 citationsOpen Access

Visual analogue scales (VAS): Measuring instruments for the documentation of symptoms and therapy monitoring in cases of allergic rhinitis in everyday health care

LKLudger KlimekJohannes Gutenberg University MainzKBKarl‐Christian BergmannHumboldt-Universität zu BerlinTBTilo BiedermannKlinikum rechts der Isar

Key Points

  • This research aims to assess the effectiveness of visual analogue scales in measuring allergic rhinitis symptoms and supporting treatment decisions.
  • Validated the use of visual analogue scales for assessing allergic rhinitis symptoms.
  • Incorporated VAS into a smartphone app called Allergy Diary for real-time monitoring.
  • Evaluated correlation between VAS and established clinical measures such as ARIA severity classification.
  • VAS effectively correlates with ARIA severity classification and rTNSS.
  • The Allergy Diary app allows real-time assessment of disease control and treatment responses.
  • The app is available in 15 languages, enhancing accessibility for diverse populations.

Abstract

VAS are well validated for the measurement of AR symptoms and correlate well with the ARIA (allergic rhinitis and its impact on asthma) severity classification and also correlated well with rTNSS and RQLQ. Moreover, several treatment studies on AR have used VAS as an evaluation parameter. Thanks to the use of new (real-life and real-time) communication technologies, such as smartphone apps, 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.

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Klimek et al. (2017) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d80b2f3eff0c9dfaae31fbhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-016-0006-7
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