Chronic medication use and inflammatory skin diseases: The power and limitations of the case control study

[摘要] The potential of newly introduced medications to cause acute inflammatory skin diseases has long been recognized. Less well accepted and not often systematically studied is the role of long-term drug use in inflammatory skin diseases such as eczema. Hypothesis-driven case-control studies provide what is probably the most efficient but far from easy method to evaluate and quantify observations from case reports and case series that suggest a drug etiology for chronic skin diseases.

[发布日期] 2007-12-01