Impact of chronic hand dermatitis on quality of life, work productivity, activity impairment, and medical costs

Polarized Light: A Conservative Therapeutic Approach to Chronic Hand Eczema

“…Chronic hand eczema not only lays a large strain on patients, usually affecting their capacity to accomplish work but also has an impact on quality of life as well [2]. Moreover, the treatment costs are being highly associated with the correspondence to work [3].…”

Los costos de la enfermedad laboral: revisión de literatura

“…Una de las principales limitaciones del análisis de los artículos incluidos es que son descriptivos, no se ven resultados consolidados por actividad económica o en tablas de síntesis; además, los estimadores obtenidos no se enmarcaron dentro de intervalos de confianza que permitieran inferir la precisión de estos estimadores, dey esto da cuenta la presente revisión en la que se encontraron solo dos estudios Fowler [58] y Meijer y colaboradores [60]. Se hicieron muchos estudios con fuentes secundarias tomando datos de reclamaciones y ausentismo.…”

Evaluation of contact dermatitis among ink ribbon manufacturing employees - New York.

“…Widespread hand dermatitis on initial examination was found to be the greatest factor for a poor long-term prognosis in a third study [Meding et al 2005]. In addition, many skin disorders, including contact dermatitis, have been shown to have a significant impact on quality of life [Kadyk et al 2003;Cvetkovski et al 2005;Fowler et al 2006;Lan et al 2008].…”