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Measurement and interpretation of skin prick test results

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical and Translational Allergy, February 2016
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Title
Measurement and interpretation of skin prick test results
Published in
Clinical and Translational Allergy, February 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13601-016-0092-0
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J. P. M. van der Valk, R. Gerth van Wijk, E. Hoorn, L. Groenendijk, I. M. Groenendijk, N. W. de Jong

Abstract

There are several methods to read skin prick test results in type-I allergy testing. A commonly used method is to characterize the wheal size by its 'average diameter'. A more accurate method is to scan the area of the wheal to calculate the actual size. In both methods, skin prick test (SPT) results can be corrected for histamine-sensitivity of the skin by dividing the results of the allergic reaction by the histamine control. The objectives of this study are to compare different techniques of quantifying SPT results, to determine a cut-off value for a positive SPT for histamine equivalent prick -index (HEP) area, and to study the accuracy of predicting cashew nut reactions in double-blind placebo-controlled food challenge (DBPCFC) tests with the different SPT methods. Data of 172 children with cashew nut sensitisation were used for the analysis. All patients underwent a DBPCFC with cashew nut. Per patient, the average diameter and scanned area of the wheal size were recorded. In addition, the same data for the histamine-induced wheal were collected for each patient. The accuracy in predicting the outcome of the DBPCFC using four different SPT readings (i.e. average diameter, area, HEP-index diameter, HEP-index area) were compared in a Receiver-Operating Characteristic (ROC) plot. Characterizing the wheal size by the average diameter method is inaccurate compared to scanning method. A wheal average diameter of 3 mm is generally considered as a positive SPT cut-off value and an equivalent HEP-index area cut-off value of 0.4 was calculated. The four SPT methods yielded a comparable area under the curve (AUC) of 0.84, 0.85, 0.83 and 0.83, respectively. The four methods showed comparable accuracy in predicting cashew nut reactions in a DBPCFC. The 'scanned area method' is theoretically more accurate in determining the wheal area than the 'average diameter method' and is recommended in academic research. A HEP-index area of 0.4 is determined as cut-off value for a positive SPT. However, in clinical practice, the 'average diameter method' is also useful, because this method provides similar accuracy in predicting cashew nut allergic reactions in the DBPCFC. Trial number NTR3572.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 142 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 23 16%
Student > Master 14 10%
Researcher 12 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 24 17%
Unknown 52 36%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 39 27%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 12 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 6%
Immunology and Microbiology 7 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Other 16 11%
Unknown 54 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 03 March 2017.
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#3,046,578
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Outputs from Clinical and Translational Allergy
#202
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#50,055
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Outputs of similar age from Clinical and Translational Allergy
#5
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