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The development of an Excel® spreadsheet to document disease activity in autoimmune bullous disease
Deshan F Sebaratnam
; 1. Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2217
Supriya S Venugopal
; 1. Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2217
Dédée F Murrell
; 1. Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia 2217 2. Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Abstract
We have developed a specialised Excel® spreadsheet which records a panel of clinical variables for patients presenting to specialised bullous clinics at our institution. The spreadsheet incorporates scores for the two disease specific instruments for autoimmune bullous disease; the Autoimmune Bullous Skin Disorder Intensity Score (ABSIS) and the Pemphigus Disease Area Index (PDAI), as well as medication doses, and quality of life (QOL) scores. The spreadsheet has automated arithmetic functions for tallying scores, explanatory pop-ups and restrictions on data values to prevent the inadvertent input of invalid data. The major strength of the spreadsheet is that using the graph function, one can instantly appreciated how the disease trajectory of a patient has evolved across a range of parameters (such as disease activity, QOL and the need for immunosuppression) through the visual depiction of their clinical course. The spreadsheet built by our group is practical for routine clinical use and is a useful tool for longitudinal monitoring of disease activity in bullous patients.
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Publication date:
29.10.2013.
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