Patent ID: 11911173
Assignee: DEB IP LIMITED
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 6:
7. A method of quantifying hand skin health, the method comprising the steps of:
assessing the health of the skin of a subject's hand using a plurality of measurement tools, each of the plurality of measurement tools configured to measure at least one property of the skin of the subject's hand, said property related to skin health;
wherein the properties measured by the measurement tools comprise at least two of erythema, scaling, papule density, vesicle density, infiltration, fissuring, skin barrier function, surface hydration level, or transepidermal water loss of the subject's hand, provided that the at least two properties do not comprise the surface hydration level and the transepidermal water loss of the subject's hand in combination;
wherein the plurality of measurement tools are further configured to provide a respective first score, wherein each first score corresponds to a respective property;
wherein each of the plurality of first scores are normalized with respect to each other;
calculating a plurality of second scores based on the plurality of first scores, the plurality of second scores representing an overall health score of the skin on the subject's hand;
assessing the skin condition of a plurality of subjects;
calculating a third score representative of the plurality of subjects based on the second score of each subject;
wherein the plurality of subjects is representative of a larger population, further comprising the step of mapping the third score onto the larger population; and
wherein the larger population is the total work force at a particular work site.