Assessment of the effects of a work-related allergy to seafood on the reduction of earning capacity in the context of BK No. 5101.

Fish, crustaceans, and mollusks are among the most potent allergenic foods of animal origin and are thus important triggers of work-related immediate-food allergies. In Germany, work-related seafood allergies are of great importance in the fishing and processing industries as well as in the areas of food preparation, food control, and food sales. There is no causal therapy of seafood allergy, only the strict and lifelong avoidance of allergens remains.

Position paper: Telemedicine in occupational dermatology - current status and perspectives.

Teledermatology is the use of telecommunication technologies to exchange medical information for diagnosis, consultation, treatment and teaching in dermatology. While its use has been evaluated in a wide range of dermatological diagnoses, only few studies exist on its validity, diagnostic precision, feasibility, and cost-effectiveness in occupational dermatology. However, these studies show a considerable potential for diagnosis, prevention, treatment support and follow-up of patients with occupational skin diseases.

Occupational UV-Exposure is a Major Risk Factor for Basal Cell Carcinoma: Results of the Population-Based Case-Control Study FB-181.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the role of occupational and nonoccupational ultraviolet (UV)-exposure concerning the development of basal cell carcinoma (BCC).

Methods: We undertook a population-based multicenter case-control study. Patients with first incident BCC (n = 836) were propensity score matched by age and sex to controls without skin cancer (n = 836).

Cooperation between the occupational health insurance and physicians practicing occupational dermatology: optimization potential in quality assurance.

Background: Quality assurance is a task of the medical profession, but it is also a duty of the occupational health insurance (OHI). Data on the interaction quality between physicians practicing occupational dermatology and the OHI are limited.

Material And Methods: An online survey was performed in 854 German members of the Working Group on Occupational and Environmental Dermatology in October 2013.

UV-induced occupational skin cancer: possibilities of secondary individual prevention in the "Dermatologist's Procedure".

Invasive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) as a "quasi occupational disease" according to §9 Section 2 of the German Social Code Book (SGB) VII typically develops on chronically UV-damaged skin from actinic keratoses. After the Medical Scientific Committee of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs has confirmed the legal criteria for acknowledging UV-induced SCC as an occupational disease, it is expected that the condition will be added to the official list of occupational diseases issued by the Federal Government in the near future. The Social Accident Insurance is required by law (§3 Occupational Disease Regulation) to prevent these tumors by "all appropriate means".

The relationship between occupational sun exposure and non-melanoma skin cancer: clinical basics, epidemiology, occupational disease evaluation, and prevention.

Background: The cumulative effect of solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation is responsible for the worldwide increase in non-melanoma skin cancer, a category that includes squamous cell carcinoma and its precursors (the actinic keratoses) as well as basal-cell carcinoma. Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in areas of the world with a light-skinned population. The occupational exposure to UV radiation is high in many outdoor occupations; recent studies suggest that persons working in such occupations are more likely to develop non-melanoma skin cancer.

First results from the multicentre study rehabilitation of occupational skin diseases--optimization and quality assurance of inpatient management (ROQ).

Unlabelled: 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.

CARPE: a registry project of the German Dermatological Society (DDG) for the characterization and care of chronic hand eczema.

Background: The aim of the CARPE (German acronym: Chronisches Handekzem-Register zum Patienten-Langzeitmanagement; meaning: chronic hand eczema registry on long-term patient management) registry is to investigate characteristics and treatment modalities in patients affected by chronic hand eczema in Germany.

Methods: The registry was built up under the auspices of the German Dermatological Society (Deutsche Dermatologische Gesellschaft, DDG). Patients with chronic hand eczema are prospectively assessed by dermatological examination and patient questionnaire.

Health-related quality of life in health care workers with work-related skin diseases.

Background: Occupational skin diseases (OSDs) are common among health care workers (HCWs). Little is known about how OSD impacts on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in HCWs with suspected OSD and associated factors.

Objectives: To describe HRQoL in 278 HCWs with suspected OSD, compare data with the general and populations with skin diseases and analyse HRQoL's associations with clinical and demographic variables.

Polyvalent type IV sensitizations to multiple fragrances and a skin protection cream in a metal worker.

Fragrances are very common in everyday products. A metalworker with chronic hand eczema and previously diagnosed type IV sensitizations to epoxy resin, balsam of Peru, fragrance mix and fragrance mix II was diagnosed with additional type IV sensitizations to geraniol, hydroxycitronellal, lilial, tree moss, oak moss absolute, citral, citronellol, farnesol, Lyral, fragrance mix II and fragrance mix (with sorbitan sesquioleate). In addition, a type IV sensitization to the skin protection cream containing geraniol and citronellol used at the workplace was detected, and deemed occupationally relevant in this case.

Multicenter study "Medical-Occupational Rehabilitation Procedure Skin--optimizing and quality assurance of inpatient-management (ROQ)".

Scientifically based prevention and patient management concepts in occupational dermatology have substantially improved during recent years. Currently the public statutory employers' liability insurance bodies fund a multi-step intervention approach designed to provide quick preventive help for all levels of severity of occupational dermatoses. An administrative guideline (hierarchical multi-step intervention procedure for occupational skin diseases--"Stufenverfahren Haut") insures professional support and optimal patient orientation by the statutory insurers' representatives.

[Certificate: "Occupational Dermatology (ABD)". New curriculum 2006 of the CME-seminars of the Task Force of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology].

The certification of experts is an important component in the overall concept of quality management in occupational dermatology. With the certificate "Occupational Dermatology (ABD)" the Task Force on Occupational and Environmental Dermatology (ABD) has developed a comprehensive CME concept in the field of medico-legal evaluations. The ABD seminars meet the current requirements of the statutory accident insurances and social welfare courts.