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Howa Yeung, MD. Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1525 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30322. Phone: (404) 727-9838. Fax: (404) 712-4920. howa.yeung@emory.edu

Howa Yeung • Conceptualization, data curation, methodology, formal analysis, and writing -- original draft, and writing -- review & editing

Sarah Chisolm • Conceptualization, project administration, writing - original draft, and writing - review and editing

Suephy Chen • Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, investigation, methodology, project administration, resources, supervision, writing- Review and editing

Katelyn Peloza • Project administration, visualization, Writing- original draft, writing- review and editing

Dr. Chisolm has performed consulting work for pharmaceutical companies Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, and Menlo Therapeutics. Some of this work was related to pruritus, but none directly related to the research included in this paper. Dr. Chen receives royalties from for-profit companies licensing the ItchyQoL instrument. Dr. Yeung and Katelyn Peloza have no relevant financial disclosures.

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Research Funding:

This study is supported in part by the Dermatology Foundation and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) of the National Institutes of Health under award number UL1TR002378 and KL2TR002381 (H.Y.). The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

Keywords:

  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Dermatology

Chronic Pruritus Severity and QoL Impact on Healthcare Utilization among Veterans: A National Survey

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Journal Title:

JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY

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Volume 139, Number 10

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, Pages 2223-2225

Type of Work:

Article | Post-print: After Peer Review

Abstract:

Chronic pruritus has significant negative effects on health-related quality of life (QoL) and accounts for 7 million, or 1%, of all outpatient visits annually in the United States (Shive et al., 2013). Chronic pruritus is associated with comorbidities such as anxiety and depression, as well as negative effects on sleep quality (Yosipovitch and Bernhard, 2013). Little is known about how patient-reported QoL impairment due to pruritus is related to healthcare utilization. This national survey of U.S. veterans aimed to assess the association between itch severity and itch-related QoL impact with healthcare utilization.

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This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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