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. 2023 Jan;78(1):299-301.
doi: 10.1111/all.15474. Epub 2022 Aug 20.

Reliability of a novel electro-medical device for wheal size measurement in allergy skin testing: An exploratory clinical trial

María de la Paz Morales-Palacios  1 , Jorge M Núñez-Córdoba  2 , Eduardo Tejero  3 , Óscar Matellanes  3 , Paola Leonor Quan  1 , Álvaro Carvallo  1 , Sergio Sánchez-Fernández  1 , Maite Urtasun  1 , Carla Larrea  1 , María Teresa Íñiguez  1 , Rosa Giménez  1 , Maria José Goikoetxea  1   4 , Carmen M D'Amelio  1   4 , Marta Ferrer  1   4 , Gabriel Gastaminza  1   4
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Reliability of a novel electro-medical device for wheal size measurement in allergy skin testing: An exploratory clinical trial

María de la Paz Morales-Palacios et al. Allergy. 2023 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: allergy; automated measurement; clinical trial; diagnosis; prick test.

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Conflict of interest statement

GG is a member of the Nexkin Medical advisory board and patent's co‐author: Measuring Wheals and Detecting Allergies. OM and ET are Nexkin Medical employees and shareholders. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interests.

Figures

FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Agreement in wheal size between manual measurement procedure and Nexkin DSPT® for first and second readings. 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; ICC, Intraclass correlation coefficient. Dashed lines represent perfect agreement and solid lines indicate reduced major axis (RMA) linear regression
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Comparisons between histamine wheal size reading variations of manual procedure and Nexkin DSPT®
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