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List of works by Christian J. Apfelbacher

'The lesser of two evils…' - views of persons with rheumatoid arthritis on medication adherence: a qualitative study.

scientific article published on 2 February 2016

12-year changes in cardiovascular risk factors in people with major depressive or bipolar disorder: a prospective cohort analysis in Germany

scientific article published on 16 July 2018

A critical appraisal and implications of the new National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guideline on dupilumab for treating moderate-to-severe atopic eczema

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Acceptability of a German multicentre healthcare research study: a survey of research personnels' attitudes, experiences and work load

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Achieving consensus over the assessment of clinical signs in eczema trials.

scientific article published on 29 May 2015

Allergic diseases of the skin and drug allergies – 2011. Is the impact of atopic conditions on children and adolescent health related quality of life modified by mental health? Results from a population-based cross-sectional study.

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Assessing health-related quality of life in hand eczema patients: how to overcome psychometric faults when using the dermatology life quality index

scientific article published in November 2014

Assessment of pet exposure by self-report in epidemiological studies of allergy and asthma: a systematic review.

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Assoziation von Neurodermitis und Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit/Hyperaktivitäts-Syndrom

scientific article published on 01 January 2013

CARPE: a registry project of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) for the characterization and care of chronic hand eczema

scientific article published on 12 May 2011

Characteristics and provision of care of patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome: descriptive findings from the DACAPO cohort baseline and comparison with international findings.

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Children and adolescents' health-related quality of life in relation to eczema, asthma and hay fever: results from a population-based cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 24 February 2011

Choice of outcomes and measurement instruments in randomised trials on eLearning in medical education: a systematic mapping review protocol.

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Chronic hand eczema in Germany: 5-year follow-up data from the CARPE registry

scientific article published on 24 September 2018

Chronic hand eczema: A prospective analysis of the Swiss CARPE registry focusing on factors associated with clinical and quality of life improvement

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Clearing up misunderstandings around core outcomes for atopic dermatitis

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Cochrane Reviews and Dermatological Trials Outcome Concordance: Why Core Outcome Sets Could Make Trial Results More Usable

scientific article published on 05 December 2018

Comments on ‘Validity and responsiveness of the Osnabrück Hand Eczema Severity Index (OHSI): a methodological study’

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

Cross-Cultural Validation of the Quality of Life in Hand Eczema Questionnaire (QOLHEQ).

scientific article published on March 2017

Depression moderates the associations between beliefs about medicines and medication adherence in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: Cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 4 May 2016

Depressive symptoms, social support, and risk of adult asthma in a population-based cohort study.

scientific article published on 26 February 2010

Dermato-epidemiology

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Dermatoepidemiology; what's up people?

scientific article published in October 2015

Determinants of Quality of Life and Return to Work Following Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

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Determinants of current hand eczema: results from case-control studies nested in the PACO follow-up study (PACO II).

scientific article published in June 2010

Determinants of eczema: population-based cross-sectional study in Germany

scientific article published on 30 August 2010

Determinants of patients' needs in asthma treatment: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Development and initial testing of a new instrument to measure the experience of eczema control in adults and children: Recap of atopic eczema (RECAP)

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Diagnosing and treating female sexual dysfunction: a survey of the perspectives of obstetricians and gynaecologists.

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Differences in medication adherence are associated with beliefs about medicines in asthma and COPD.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Eczema Trials: Quality of Life Instruments Used and Their Relation to Patient-reported Outcomes. A Systematic Review.

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Eczema.

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Efficacy and tolerability of proactive treatment with topical corticosteroids and calcineurin inhibitors for atopic eczema: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials ⬇️

scientific article published on November 23, 2010

Epidemiology of hand eczema from adolescence to adulthood

scientific article published on 01 August 2014

Epidemiology of tick bites and borreliosis in children attending kindergarten or so-called "forest kindergarten" in southwest Germany

scientific article published on 01 March 2006

Erratum re: Prevalence of overweight and obesity in East and West German children in the decade after reunification: population-based series of cross-sectional studies

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Evaluating Written Patient Information for Eczema in German: Comparing the Reliability of Two Instruments, DISCERN and EQIP.

scientific article published on 6 October 2015

Evaluation of responsiveness and estimation of smallest detectable change and minimal important change scores for the Childhood Atopic Dermatitis Impact Scale

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

Evaluation of the measurement properties of symptom measurement instruments for atopic eczema: a systematic review.

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Evidence Synthesis of Digital Interventions to Mitigate the Negative Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Mental Health: Rapid Meta-review

scientific article published on 18 February 2021

Factors associated with generic health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published in February 2018

Factors associated with generic health-related quality of life in adult asthma patients in Germany: Cross-sectional study

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Factors that predict remission of infant atopic dermatitis: a systematic review

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Folgen kritischer Erkrankung und mögliche Interventionen

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German-wide prospective DACAPO cohort of survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS): a cohort profile

scientific article published on 4 April 2018

Global Allergy Forum and 3rd Davos Declaration 2015: Atopic dermatitis/Eczema: challenges and opportunities toward precision medicine

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Good evidence on measurement properties of the Dermatology Life Quality Index, Itchy Quality of Life and 5-dimensions itch scales in atopic eczema, but problems with structural validity remain

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Guidance is also needed on how to choose from existing asthma-specific quality-of-life measures

scientific article published on 27 September 2012

Guideline for translation and national validation of the Quality of Life in Hand Eczema Questionnaire (QOLHEQ).

scientific article published on 8 May 2017

Health outcomes, education, healthcare delivery and quality – 3047. What do patients think about asthma-specific quality of life questionnaires? Qualitative interview study in the UK.

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Health-related quality of life in health care workers with work-related skin diseases

scientific article published in September 2009

IDQoL, CDLQI and the 45-item CADIS received a sufficient content validity rating during the HOME VII meeting in Japan: a group discussion study

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Incidence and determinants of chronic pruritus: a population-based cohort study.

scientific article published on September 2013

Indication Criteria for Total Knee Arthroplasty in Patients with Osteoarthritis - A Multi-perspective Consensus Study.

scientific article published on 19 October 2017

Infant eczema, infant sleeping problems, and mental health at 10 years of age: the prospective birth cohort study LISAplus

scientific article published on 29 September 2010

Infant-onset eczema in relation to mental health problems at age 10 years: results from a prospective birth cohort study (German Infant Nutrition Intervention plus).

scientific article published in February 2010

Influence of quality of care and individual patient characteristics on quality of life and return to work in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: protocol for a prospective, observational, multi-centre patient cohort study (DACAPO).

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Influence of quality of intensive care on quality of life/return to work in survivors of the acute respiratory distress syndrome: prospective observational patient cohort study (DACAPO)

scientific article published on 05 June 2020

Influenza vaccination coverage among high-risk groups in 11 European countries.

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Informed consent affects prevalence estimates in an epidemiological study on chronic pruritus: lessons learned from a pretest

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Is story-based blended learning a promising avenue for skin and sexual health education? Results from the PAEDIMED project

scientific article published in March 2010

Is the impact of atopic disease on children and adolescents' health related quality of life modified by mental health? Results from a population-based cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 08 July 2013

Long-term outcome after the acute respiratory distress syndrome: different from general critical illness?

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

Low vitamin D serum level is inversely associated with eczema in children and adolescents in Germany

scientific article published on 10 June 2013

Measurement properties of adult quality-of-life measurement instruments for eczema: a systematic review

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Measurement properties of adult quality-of-life measurement instruments for eczema: protocol for a systematic review

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

Measurement properties of asthma-specific quality-of-life measures: protocol for a systematic review

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Measurement properties of quality of life measurement instruments for infants, children and adolescents with eczema: protocol for a systematic review

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Measurement properties of quality-of-life measurement instruments for infants, children and adolescents with eczema: a systematic review.

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Measurement properties of quality-of-life outcome measures for children and adults with eczema: An updated systematic review

scientific article published on 18 October 2019

Measuring the impact of skin disease on children's quality of life.

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Measuring the prevalence of chronic itch in the general population: development and validation of a questionnaire for use in large-scale studies

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Medical, psychological and socio-economic implications of chronic hand eczema: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Neuroticism, extraversion, stressful life events and asthma: a cohort study of middle-aged adults

scientific article published on 25 February 2009

New evidence for construct validity and interpretability of the German Quality of Life in Hand Eczema Questionnaire (QOLHEQ)

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

No difference in skin condition between workers exposed and not exposed to glove occlusion in a semiconductor company

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

No high level evidence to support the use of oral H1 antihistamines as monotherapy for eczema: a summary of a Cochrane systematic review.

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Obesity and adult asthma: potential effect modification by gender, but not by hay fever

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Occupational skin diseases in cleaning and kitchen employees: course and quality of life after measures of secondary individual prevention

scientific article published in August 2007

Occurrence and prognosis of hand eczema in the car industry: results from the PACO follow-up study (PACO II).

scientific article published in June 2008

Onset and severity of atopic dermatitis, atopy and hand eczema in adolescents.

scientific article published on November 2015

Oral H1 antihistamines as 'add-on' therapy to topical treatment for eczema

scientific article published on 22 January 2019

Oral H1 antihistamines as monotherapy for eczema

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Overview of systematic reviews in allergy epidemiology

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

Pain, social support and depressive symptoms in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: testing the stress-buffering hypothesis.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM), a core instrument to measure symptoms in clinical trials: a Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) statement.

scientific article published on 17 November 2016

Patient-centredness in health services research

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Patient-reported outcome measures and qualitative research in dermatology: the quest for authenticity.

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Patients' needs in asthma treatment: development and initial validation of the NEAT questionnaire

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Patients' views on asthma-specific quality of life questionnaires: qualitative interview study in Germany

scientific article published on 22 August 2012

Patterns of chronic hand eczema: a semantic map analysis of the CARPE registry data.

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Patterns of multiple lifestyle risk factors and their link to mental health in the German adult population: a cross-sectional study

Peer-relationship-problems account for quality of life impairments in pediatric psoriasis

scientific article published on 17 March 2016

Perspectives on HIV PrEP care in Germany: qualitative insights from primary care physicians and specialists

scientific article published on 15 June 2020

Physicians' perspectives on implementing the prevention scheme "Physical Activity on Prescription": Results of a survey in Bavaria

scientific article published on 24 February 2018

Predictors of female sexual dysfunction: a systematic review and qualitative analysis through gender inequality paradigms.

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Predictors of overweight and obesity in five to seven-year-old children in Germany: results from cross-sectional studies

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Prevalence and predictors of female sexual dysfunction: a protocol for a systematic review

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Prevalence of Female Sexual Dysfunction Among Premenopausal Women: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies

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Prevalence, correlates and characteristics of chronic pruritus: a population-based cross-sectional study

scientific article published in October 2011

Proliferation of the WReN spider, an instrument to measure health professionals' experience of research: a bibliographic study

scientific article published on 09 July 2019

Quality of inter-hospital transportation in 431 transport survivor patients suffering from acute respiratory distress syndrome referred to specialist centers

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Recommended core outcome instruments for health-related quality of life, long-term control and itch intensity in atopic eczema trials: results of the HOME VII consensus meeting

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Recommended core outcome instruments for health-related quality of life, long-term control and itch intensity in atopic eczema trials: results of the HOME VII consensus meeting

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Report from the fifth international consensus meeting to harmonize core outcome measures for atopic eczema/dermatitis clinical trials (HOME initiative).

scientific article published on 19 April 2018

Report from the fourth international consensus meeting to harmonize core outcome measures for atopic eczema/dermatitis clinical trials (HOME initiative).

scientific article published on 19 July 2016

Report from the kick-off meeting of the Cochrane Skin Group Core Outcome Set Initiative (CSG-COUSIN).

scientific article published on 18 January 2016

Report from the third international consensus meeting to harmonise core outcome measures for atopic eczema/dermatitis clinical trials (HOME).

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Research needs in allergy: an EAACI position paper, in collaboration with EFA.

scientific article published on 2 November 2012

Research questions for the treatment of alopecia areata have been prioritized.

scientific article published on May 2017

Role of Institutional Review Boards for multi-centre studies in national health services research - a cross-sectional study of the effort to obtain secondary ethical approvals for the DACAPO study

scientific article published on 11 September 2015

Secondary individual prevention of occupational skin diseases in health care workers, cleaners and kitchen employees: aims, experiences and descriptive results

scientific article published on 08 November 2006

Several patient-reported outcome measures exist for children with atopic eczema/dermatitis, but their validity is largely unknown.

scientific article published on 7 July 2017

Severity and functional disability of patients with occupational contact dermatitis: validation of the German version of the Occupational Contact Dermatitis Disease Severity Index

scientific article published on 19 November 2014

Specific, but not general beliefs about medicines are associated with medication adherence in patients with COPD, but not asthma: Cohort study in a population of people with chronic pulmonary disease.

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Standardized reporting of the Eczema Area and Severity Index (EASI) and the Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM): a recommendation by the Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) Initiative

scientific article published on 25 June 2018

Study protocol for the SeMaCo study: A longitudinal regional cohort study to assess COVID-19 seroprevalence in blood donors

scientific article published in 2021

TREatment of ATopic eczema (TREAT) Registry Taskforce: an international Delphi exercise to identify a core set of domains and domain items for national atopic eczema photo- and systemic therapy registries

scientific article published on 03 August 2018

TREatment of ATopic eczema (TREAT) Registry Taskforce: protocol for a European safety study of dupilumab and other systemic therapies in patients with atopic eczema

scientific article published on 24 August 2019

The Cochrane Skin Group's COUSIN convened for the second time

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

The Harmonising Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) statement to assess clinical signs of atopic eczema in trials

scientific article published on October 2014

The Harmonizing Outcome Measures for Eczema (HOME) roadmap: a methodological framework to develop core sets of outcome measurements in dermatology

scientific article published on 4 September 2014

The International TREatment of ATopic Eczema (TREAT) Registry Taskforce: An Initiative to Harmonize Data Collection across National Atopic Eczema Photo- and Systemic Therapy Registries.

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The Patient Needs in Asthma Treatment (NEAT) questionnaire: Further evidence on its psychometric properties

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

The Patient-Oriented Eczema Measure: estimating the minimal important change in an outpatient clinic cohort

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

The Quality of Life in Hand Eczema Questionnaire (QOLHEQ): validation of the German version of a new disease-specific measure of quality of life for patients with hand eczema.

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

The impact of measures for secondary individual prevention of work-related skin diseases in health care workers: 1-year follow-up study

scientific article published in March 2009

The impact of skin conditions on generic health-related quality of life.

scientific article published in May 2017

The role of mobile health technologies in allergy care: An EAACI position paper

scientific article published on 16 September 2019

The state of asthma epidemiology: an overview of systematic reviews and their quality

scientific article published on 29 March 2017

The time healthcare workers wear disposable gloves daily is associated with hand eczema in a dose-dependent fashion

scientific article published in February 2018

Tick bites and borreliosis in children attending forest kindergarten: a challenge for prevention

scientific article published in December 2006

Towards global consensus on outcome measures for atopic eczema research: results of the HOME II meeting

scientific article published on 30 July 2012

Trends in non-help-seeking for mental disorders in Germany between 1997-1999 and 2009-2012: a repeated cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 29 April 2017

Validity of three asthma-specific quality of life questionnaires: the patients' perspective

scientific article published on 22 December 2016

Validity of two common asthma-specific quality of life questionnaires: Juniper mini asthma quality of life questionnaire and Sydney asthma quality of life questionnaire

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Which factors are associated with the use of systemic antihistamines in patients with chronic hand eczema? Results from the CARPE registry.

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Which outcomes have been measured in hand eczema trials? A systematic review

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Why offered pancreases are refused in the allocation process-a descriptive study using routine data from eurotransplant.

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Working in the dirt and heat: Bavarian farmers' insights into barriers to implementing sun protection related to the demands of their agricultural work

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Written emotional disclosure for asthma

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Written emotional disclosure for asthma

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[Hand eczema registries: Background, value and future prospects : Registry data in hand eczema research]

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[Health services research: the example of hand eczema]

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

[Measurement of disease severity in dermatology]

scientific article published on 01 September 2015

[Quality of life in dermatology. From measurement to practical implementation]

scientific article published on 01 April 2015

[Quality of patient information leaflets on atopic eczema : An analysis using the DISCERN instrument]

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

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