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Prognosis of occupational contact dermatitis refers to the course of dermatitis over a period of time with and without medical intervention. Because of lack of standardisation in assessing clinical response of occupational contact dermatitis and the duration of follow-up, it is difficult to compare reports on the prognosis of occupational contact dermatitis in the literature. Long-term follow-up studies on prognosis of occupational contact dermatitis are often difficult because of difficulty in recalling patients for review and follow-up and difficulty in finding control groups for comparison. Most reports on the prognosis rely on retrospective studies. Such data tend to be biased, as they tend to include patients with persistent or more severe occupational contact dermatitis.
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Goh, C.L. (2000). Prognosis of Occupational Contact Dermatitis. In: Kanerva, L., Wahlberg, J.E., Elsner, P., Maibach, H.I. (eds) Handbook of Occupational Dermatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07677-4_57
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