First results from the multicentre study Rehabilitation of Occupational Skin Diseases – Optimization and Quality Assurance of Inpatient Management (ROQ)

Background and objectives. The German stepwise procedure of handling occupational skin diseases (OSDs) offers interdisciplinary integrated (inpatient/outpatient) rehabilitation measures [tertiary individual prevention (TIP)] for severe OSD. In 2005, a prospective cohort multicentre study was started in order to evaluate TIP.


Methods. One thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight patients with severe OSD were treated and educated in five clinics with follow-up before and 4 weeks after return to work.


Results. During the inpatient phase, there was a significant improvement in the severity of OSD (Osnabrueck Hand Eczema Severity Index, p < 0.001) and ...

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