useful tools for clinic
It can be useful to provide scores
or use other tools to help evaluate your skin and wellbeing as part
of the telephone consultation:
Dermatology Life Quality Index
This tool is designed to help you measure how much your skin has
affected lots of different areas of your life in the last week. We
use if often for people with difficult eczema or psoriasis, but it
can be used for any challenging skin disease. The link below takes
you to a site where you can self score and it will provide you with
a value that you can then contribute to the telephone
consultation. There is no need to enter any personal
identification. The online tool is not run as part of the
NHS.
http://www.dermcalculator.com/dlqi/
PHQ-9
The PHQ-9 is a useful depression score and sometimes needed as a
means of establishing your mood
https://www.mdcalc.com/phq-9-patient-health-questionnaire-9
