{"doi":"10.1111/pde.15338","title":"Assessment of the American Academy of Dermatology diagnostic criteria for pediatric atopic dermatitis and modification into a checkbox form: A <scp>cross‐sectional</scp> study","abstract":"BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Diagnostic criteria for atopic dermatitis (AD) are limited in their performance and/or usability. The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) consensus criteria include hierarchical categories of disease features to improve these metrics but have not been validated. Our objective was to create and validate a checkbox form of the AAD consensus criteria in the pediatric population. METHODS: We performed a cross-sectional study of 100 pediatric patients with AD (n = 58) and diseases in the differential diagnosis of AD (n = 42). RESULTS: Having three or more \"Essential,\" ≥2 \"Important,\" ≥1 \"Associated\" features of the AAD criteria was optimal for the diagnosis of AD in children. This combination was 91.4% (95% CI, 84.2%-98.6%) sensitive and 95.2% (88.8%-100%) specific. The UK working party criteria and the Hanifin-Rajka criteria had sensitivities of 96.6% (95% CI 91.9%-100%) and 98.3% (95% CI 94.9%-100%) and specificities of 83.3% (95% CI 72.1%-94.6%) and 71.4% (95% CI 57.8%-85.1%), respectively. The AAD criteria had significantly greater specificity than the Hanifin-Rajka criteria (p = .002). CONCLUSIONS: This study represents an important step in validating the AAD consensus criteria and formulating a useable checkbox form for diagnosing AD in the pediatric population.","journal":"Pediatric Dermatology","year":2023,"id":378712,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9535,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1142923,"name":"Jenna Borok","orcid":"0000-0001-5692-1990","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":423680,"name":"Florin Vaida","orcid":"0000-0002-2256-4611","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":388853,"name":"Bin Tang","orcid":"0000-0001-7465-5198","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1143238,"name":"Catalina Matiz","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1142924,"name":"Jusleen Ahluwalia","orcid":"0000-0002-3911-9813","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":776171,"name":"Emma Russell","orcid":"0000-0002-0114-9902","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":978213,"name":"Lawrence F. Eichenfield","orcid":"0000-0002-2760-0474","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1142922,"name":"Jeremy Udkoff","orcid":"0000-0003-1769-4910","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":18,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:16:48.594070Z","pmid":"37341972","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}