Clinical assessment scales and methods
AssigneeAllergan, Inc.
InventorsJane A. Thomas, Patricia S. Walker
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are scales for assessing lip fullness, severity of perioral lines at rest, severity of perioral lines at maximum contraction or oral commissures. The scales comprise rows or columns of photographs corresponding to different severity categories. Each scale may have a Kappa score of at least about 0.700 for intra-rater and inter-rater reliability.
Claims24
A scale for assessing at least one characteristic of an individual, the scale comprising:
- illustrations showing the mouth area of human subjects, the illustrations being organized in different categories representing levels of severity of the characteristic and wherein each level of severity is represented by at least two different human subjects;
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- the characteristic being selected from the group consisting of lip fullness, severity of perioral lines at rest, severity of perioral lines at maximum contraction and oral commissures.
The scale of claim 6 wherein the illustrations are photographs and each row includes photographs taken from at least two different human subjects.
A scale system for assessing at least one characteristic of the mouth area of an individual, the system comprising:
- a lip fullness scale comprising illustrations showing the mouth area of human subjects, the illustrations being organized in different categories representing levels of lip fullness;
- a severity scale for perioral lines at rest comprising illustrations showing the mouth area of human subjects, the illustrations being organized in different categories representing levels of severity of perioral lines at rest;
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- an oral commissure severity scale comprising illustrations showing the mouth area of human subjects, the illustrations being organized in different categories representing levels of severity of oral commissure.
A method for assessing at least one characteristic of an individual comprising:
- providing a scale comprising illustrations showing the mouth area of human subjects, the illustrations being organized in different categories representing levels of severity of the characteristic and wherein each level of severity is represented by at least two different human subjects, the characteristic being selected from the group consisting of lip fullness, severity of perioral lines, severity of perioral lines at maximum contraction and oral commissures;
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- comparing the scale to a corresponding characteristic of an individual to obtain a rating of a level of severity of the corresponding characteristic of the individual.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.