Health Boards
Sun-08-02-2026, 19:01 PM
(This post was last modified: Sun-08-02-2026, 21:52 PM by Caroline. Edited 2 times in total.)
I will give a longer comment later on…
But for now… I think it is slightly hilarious to choose a number between 0 and 6…. And call that a “tool”.
Even a hammer is more complex…
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Okay. So this “Gulliver-Gestalt-Psoriasis Area Severity Estimate (G2-PASE)”, carries a heavy name, but in fact it is an intuitive estimate of the severity of the Psoriasis on a 0-6 scale.
Combined with the BSA measure of the area that is affected on the basis of the handpalm, where each handpalm stands for 1%.. (so if you have big hands, you are lucky as you then have less psoriasis..
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Personally I can’t view this as a “Tool” as this suggests scientific accuracy, which is certainly not an aspect of this method.
Anyway we can see that the normal PASI score is way more accurate.. and let’s be realistic… how difficult is it to fill in the PASI-score? It is amazingly simple.
The, for me idiotic and far overrated, point is that all those “measurements” PASI, BSA, SAPASI, PEST, PRIDD, etcetera are so called (I have done some research) validated “tools” () which means that they are developed by professional medics and are all copyrighted so you cannot use them only if you are a professional or otherwise you need some consent and maybe even may have to pay a fee…
And that for sometimes very easy and obvious question lists…
But for now… I think it is slightly hilarious to choose a number between 0 and 6…. And call that a “tool”.
Even a hammer is more complex…
———
Okay. So this “Gulliver-Gestalt-Psoriasis Area Severity Estimate (G2-PASE)”, carries a heavy name, but in fact it is an intuitive estimate of the severity of the Psoriasis on a 0-6 scale.
Combined with the BSA measure of the area that is affected on the basis of the handpalm, where each handpalm stands for 1%.. (so if you have big hands, you are lucky as you then have less psoriasis..
)Personally I can’t view this as a “Tool” as this suggests scientific accuracy, which is certainly not an aspect of this method.
Anyway we can see that the normal PASI score is way more accurate.. and let’s be realistic… how difficult is it to fill in the PASI-score? It is amazingly simple.
The, for me idiotic and far overrated, point is that all those “measurements” PASI, BSA, SAPASI, PEST, PRIDD, etcetera are so called (I have done some research) validated “tools” (
) which means that they are developed by professional medics and are all copyrighted so you cannot use them only if you are a professional or otherwise you need some consent and maybe even may have to pay a fee… And that for sometimes very easy and obvious question lists…
