Considerations for Diagnosing Atopic Dermatitis and Assessing Severity
Panelists discuss the diagnostic criteria for atopic dermatitis (AD), highlighting challenges in diagnosis due to the disease’s heterogeneity across factors like age, skin color, and other variables, and explore how this complexity can lead to misdiagnosis or late diagnosis; they also share tips for diagnosing AD, determining disease severity, and incorporating patient-reported outcomes into severity assessments, while examining how advances in treatment and understanding have shaped current perspectives on AD severity.
Video content above is prompted by the following:
- What diagnostic criteria are considered, and what are some of the challenges of diagnosis (e.g., heterogeneity based on age, skin color, etc.)?
- How can the complexity and heterogeneity of atopic dermatitis potentially lead to misdiagnosis or late diagnosis?
- What tips do you have for diagnosing and determining disease severity?
- How do you define AD disease severity? What parameters do you consider when making the diagnosis of mild, moderate, or severe disease?
- How do you incorporate patient-reported outcomes into determining disease severity?
- How have advances in treatments and in understanding atopic dermatitis changed how we think about severity of disease, if at all?
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