Are Treatment Satisfaction, Quality of Life, and Self-assessed Disease Severity Relevant Parameters for Patient Registries? Experiences from Finnish and Swedish Patients with Psoriasis

Hjortsberg C, Bergman A, Bjarnsson A, Heikkilä H, Hjelmgren J, Svensson Å and Tennvall Ragnarson G

Patient registries often lack indicators of the disease as experienced by patients, e.g. treatment satisfaction and self-assessed disease severity. To assess psoriasis treatment completely, it is necessary to consider the impact of the disease on the patient in terms of treatment satisfaction, disease severity and health-related quality of life.

Acta Derm Venereol 2011; 91: 409–414
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1094