DERMATOPHYTOSES SEVERITY SCORE(DSS) - A novel point-of-care scoring tool to assess the severity of dermatophytosis.

The reliability of the DSS system was done in 2 steps. A 2 step assessment and DSS grading of 200 consecutive patients with clinically diagnosed dermatophytoses showed high reliability (Cronbach α test and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC)) CONCLUSIONS: The DSS has demonstrated high reliability and it could serve as a novel, reproducible and objective scoring tool for dermatophytosis.