JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5391
Nathaly Gonzalez, Kamina Wilkerson, Herbert Castillo Valladares, Maria Elena Sanchez-Anguiano, Aileen Y Chang, Erin H Amerson
{"title":"Latine Patients' Beliefs, Attitudes, and Experience With Psoriasis.","authors":"Nathaly Gonzalez, Kamina Wilkerson, Herbert Castillo Valladares, Maria Elena Sanchez-Anguiano, Aileen Y Chang, Erin H Amerson","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5391","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>In the US, Latine patients disproportionately experience severe psoriasis, limited access to care, and poor disease-related quality of life. However, little is known about psoriasis in this growing US population.</p><p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To explore Latine patients' perception of their illness and their attitudes toward and experiences with the health care system, treatment, and research.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>In this qualitative study, a thematic analysis was performed of in-depth, semistructured interviews of 30 Latine adults with moderate to severe psoriasis at an outpatient dermatology clinic in an urban safety-net hospital. All patients included had psoriasis diagnosed by a dermatologist and were defined as having moderate to severe psoriasis if systemic treatment was offered at any time during their disease course. Interviews were held between July 7 and August 3, 2022. Data saturation was used to determine sample size.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Interviews were conducted in English or Spanish, audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and translated. Transcripts were then coded through an iterative process, and themes were identified through thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Among 30 participants included, the mean (SD) age was 50 (11) years, 20 (67%) were male, and 22 (73%) preferred Spanish. Among 15 participants who disclosed their country of origin or ancestry, 7 (23%) were from Mexico; 4 (13%), Guatemala; 2 (7%), El Salvador; 1 (3%), Honduras; 1 (3%), Nicaragua; and 1 (3%), Peru. Six interrelated themes describing participant experiences were identified: (1) illness perception of psoriasis, (2) reliance on sociofamilial connections for medical decision-making, (3) impact of psoriasis on work life, (4) barriers to accessing quality dermatologic care, (5) receptiveness to prescription and nonprescription treatments, and (6) positive perception and interest toward research.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>The findings of this study highlight the impact of psoriasis on Latine individuals, the efforts made by this population to overcome health disparities, their positive perception toward biologic medications, and their interest in participating in biomedical research. Future investigations should assess educational interventions and further explore the preferences of Latine patients toward biologic medications and biomedical research.</p>","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5542
Seneca D Hutson, Mary E Lohman, Emma F Johnson
{"title":"Smooth, Firm, Skin-Colored Papules on the Nasal Dorsum.","authors":"Seneca D Hutson, Mary E Lohman, Emma F Johnson","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5542","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5542","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5668
Alexander Cimprich
{"title":"Measuring the Carbon Footprint of Dermatology.","authors":"Alexander Cimprich","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5668","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5146
Simon J Gunter, Martina L Porter, Alexa B Kimball
{"title":"C-Reactive Protein and Response to Adalimumab in Patients With Hidradenitis Suppurativa: A Post Hoc Analysis of 2 Randomized Clinical Trials.","authors":"Simon J Gunter, Martina L Porter, Alexa B Kimball","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5669
Genevieve S Silva, Alex Waegel, Joshua Kepner, Greg Evans, William Braham, Misha Rosenbach
{"title":"Carbon Footprint Analysis of an Outpatient Dermatology Practice at an Academic Medical Center.","authors":"Genevieve S Silva, Alex Waegel, Joshua Kepner, Greg Evans, William Braham, Misha Rosenbach","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5669","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>There is growing awareness of the US health sector's substantial contribution to the country's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, exacerbating the health threats from climate change. Reducing health care's environmental impact requires understanding its carbon emissions, but there are few published audits of health systems and fewer comprehensive emissions analyses at the clinic or department level.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To quantify the annual GHG emissions from a large outpatient dermatology practice, compare relative sources of emissions, and identify actionable targets.</p><p><strong>Design and setting: </strong>This quality improvement study involving a comprehensive carbon footprint analysis (scopes 1-3) of a large (nearly 30 000 visits/y), outpatient medical dermatology practice within the University of Pennsylvania's academic medical complex was conducted following the GHG Protocol Corporate and Corporate Value Chain reporting standards for fiscal year 2022 (ie, July 2021 through June 2022). Data were obtained through energy metering, manual audits, electronic medical records, and administrative data.</p><p><strong>Exposure: </strong>Data were converted into metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), allowing comparison of global-warming potential of emitted GHGs.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes and measures: </strong>Primary outcomes were tCO2e by scope 1 (direct emissions), scope 2 (indirect, purchased energy), and scope 3 (indirect, upstream/downstream sources), as well as by individual categories of emission sources within each scope.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Scope 3 contributed most to the clinic's carbon footprint, composing 165.5 tCO2e (51.1%), followed by scope 2 (149.9 tCO2e [46.3%]), and scope 1 (8.2 tCO2e [2.5%]). Within scope 3, the greatest contributor was overall purchased goods and services (120.3 tCO2e [72.7% of scope 3]), followed by patient travel to and from the clinic (14.2 tCO2e [8.6%]) and waste (13.1 tCO2e [7.9%]). Steam and chilled water were the largest contributors to scope 2. Clinic energy use intensity was 185.4 kBtu/sqft.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>In this quality improvement study, the composition of emissions at the clinic level reflects the importance of scope 3, paralleling the health sector overall. The lower-resource intensity of the clinic compared to the average energy requirements of the total clinical complex led to a relatively large contribution from scope 2. These findings support efforts to characterize high-yield emissions-reduction targets and allow for identification of actionable, clinic-level steps that may inform broader health system efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142949146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5502
Zheng Su, Si-Jia Zhao, Yue-Ping Zeng
{"title":"Granulomatous Cheilitis in a Young Woman.","authors":"Zheng Su, Si-Jia Zhao, Yue-Ping Zeng","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5502","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5380
Emily Baumrin, Peter F Cronholm, Matthew D Kearney, Mlka Mengesha, Laura G Cesar, Shimrit Keddem, Marilyn M Schapira, Stephanie J Lee, Alison W Loren, Joel M Gelfand
{"title":"Outcomes of Importance to Patients Living With Cutaneous Chronic Graft-vs-Host Disease.","authors":"Emily Baumrin, Peter F Cronholm, Matthew D Kearney, Mlka Mengesha, Laura G Cesar, Shimrit Keddem, Marilyn M Schapira, Stephanie J Lee, Alison W Loren, Joel M Gelfand","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5380","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5380","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Cutaneous chronic graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is independently associated with morbidity and mortality after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. However, the health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) domains that are most important to patients are poorly understood.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To perform a concept elicitation study to define HRQOL in cutaneous chronic GVHD from the patient perspective and to compare experiences of patients with epidermal vs sclerotic disease.</p><p><strong>Design, setting, and participants: </strong>A single-center qualitative analysis from open-ended, semistructured interviews and free-listing terms conducted between April and September 2023. Participants were 18 years or older with a diagnosis of active cutaneous chronic GVHD, purposefully sampled for epidermal and sclerotic disease features, with ongoing sampling until thematic saturation.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes: </strong>HRQOL domains and codes from patient perspectives of living with cutaneous chronic GVHD were identified by inductive analysis of semistructured interviews. Smith salience index (Smith S) score, a measure of saliency for each list term, was calculated from free-listing terms from deidentified patient interviews.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 31 adults with cutaneous chronic GVHD (median [IQR] age, 61.1 [52.9-68.7] years) participated in interviews; 17 participants (54.8%) were male and 14 (45.2%) were female. Nine participants (29.0%) had epidermal, 13 (41.9%) sclerotic, and 9 (29.0%) a combination of disease types. The study identified 40 codes of importance grouped within 5 HRQOL domains: skin changes and symptoms, social functioning, psychological and emotional functioning, physical functioning, and general health perceptions. The most frequent symptoms were dry skin (n = 20 [65%]), tight skin (n = 19 [61%]), itch (n = 15 [48%]), and discoloration (n = 14 [45%]), which were seen in all disease subtypes. Impairment in social functioning was noted by all participants. Psychological and emotional functioning, including frustration (Smith S score, 0.32) and worry or concern (Smith S score, 0.12), and symptoms including discomfort (Smith S score, 0.20) were the most salient to patients. Individual and environmental factors, such as social comparison, illness comparison with cancer, anatomic location of disease involvement, and disease duration, affected the relationship between skin changes and symptoms and downstream functioning and general health perceptions.</p><p><strong>Conclusions and relevance: </strong>This qualitative analysis demonstrated the direct relationship between cutaneous chronic GVHD and HRQOL domains and identified codes not represented in existing GVHD- and dermatology-specific patient-reported outcome measures. These results can guide patient-reported outcome development and instrument selection for clinical trials and improve clinical decision-making.</p>","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5141
Michelle Sikora, Chinemelum Obijiofor, Angelo Osofsky, Lynn Liu, Soutrik Mandal, Kristen I Lo Sicco, Avrom S Caplan
{"title":"Sarcoidosis-Specific Cutaneous Lesion Distribution in Clinical Assessment for Cardiac Sarcoidosis.","authors":"Michelle Sikora, Chinemelum Obijiofor, Angelo Osofsky, Lynn Liu, Soutrik Mandal, Kristen I Lo Sicco, Avrom S Caplan","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JAMA dermatologyPub Date : 2025-01-02DOI: 10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5301
Maha Kazmi, Mehar Maju, Rubi Danielle Montejano, Ivan Rodriguez, Coleen Kivlahan, Herbert B Castillo Valladares
{"title":"Multi-Institutional Clinical Forensic Dermatology Training for Dermatology Residents.","authors":"Maha Kazmi, Mehar Maju, Rubi Danielle Montejano, Ivan Rodriguez, Coleen Kivlahan, Herbert B Castillo Valladares","doi":"10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jamadermatol.2024.5301","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":14734,"journal":{"name":"JAMA dermatology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":11.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142914769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}