Acknowledgements

The author of this manual wishes to thank members of the UK Atopic Dermatitis Diagnostic Criteria Working Party (mentioned in full in reference 9) for their kind help with the development of the diagnostic criteria. I also wish to thank Professor Jon Hanifin, Oregon, USA and Professor Georg Rajka, Oslo for their constructive comments on this manual. The Wellcome Trust is to be thanked for supporting the author during the early development of the diagnostic criteria. Stiefel UK Ltd kindly produced and printed the original laminated photographic protocol for visible flexural dermatitis. Special thanks to all those colleagues from around the world who have given me valuable feedback on how the UK criteria for atopic eczema appear to work in different field settings, and to the International Study of Asthma and Allergic Diseases in Childhood (ISAAC) for suggesting that I should produce this manual. Barry Wood of the Learning Group in Information Services converted the manual for online delivery.

Conflict of Interest: None.