The Urticaria Control Test (UCT) - non-commercial use

The Urticaria Control Test (UCT) - non-commercial use

The Urticaria Control Test (UCT) is a validated, easy to use toll to determine disease control in pastients with chronic urticaria of all subforms (spontaneous and iducible). The UCT is designed as a retrospective instrument and may be evaluated directly, fastly and easily at the time of any chronic urticaria patient presentation.

The UCT was developed by a Charité team of scientist led by Dr. Karsten Weller and Dr. Marcus Maurer. Briefly, after a set of potential UCT items was developed, item evaluation and reduction were performed by means of impact analysis, regression analysis, and by checking for face validity. In addition, the items of the final UCT were tested for their validity and reliability during a validation study. The UCT is currently available for the use in Germany (german) and the USA (American-english).

Quick Facts UCT:

Number of items:4

Suited for: All adult (=18 years old) patients with chronic urticaria of all subforms (spontaneous and iducible)

Assessment: Retroespectively (recall period: 4 weeks)

Scoring: Scoring template available, easy sum scoring

Cutoff-value: 12 points (<12 points indicate poorly controlled urticaria)

Copyright: Moxie GmbH (www.moxie-gmbh.de)

Additional information here.

Ezzat Alarbeed, Zaid Almustafa, Iman Nasr, Laura Schwenner, Karten Weller, Young-Min Ye, Md, PhD

References:

Weller, K., Groffik, A., Church, M. K., Hawro, T., Krause, K., Metz, M., Martus, P., Casale, T., Staubach, P., and Maurer, M.: Development and validation of the urticaria control test – a patient reported outcome instrument for assessing urticaria control. J. Allergy Clin. Immunol. 2013: in press.