Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years

Skin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by nondermatologist physicians to the Department...

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Autores principales: Dantas, Lia Dias Pinheiro, Bakos, Lucio, Balbinot, Gabriela, Drechsler, Carine Elisabete Rost, Eidt, Letícia Maria
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153664
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author Dantas, Lia Dias Pinheiro
Bakos, Lucio
Balbinot, Gabriela
Drechsler, Carine Elisabete Rost
Eidt, Letícia Maria
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description Skin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by nondermatologist physicians to the Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre period of 10 years. A total of 5685 patients were evaluated, representing an average of 48.2 patients per month. The five most frequent groups were infectious dermatoses(33.25%), eczematous dermatoses (11.49%), drug reactions (11.43%), vascular dermatoses (6.81%) and group of pruritus, prurigo nodularis and urticaria (hives) (4.71%).
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spelling pubmed-46312482015-11-04 Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years Dantas, Lia Dias Pinheiro Bakos, Lucio Balbinot, Gabriela Drechsler, Carine Elisabete Rost Eidt, Letícia Maria An Bras Dermatol Communication Skin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by nondermatologist physicians to the Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre period of 10 years. A total of 5685 patients were evaluated, representing an average of 48.2 patients per month. The five most frequent groups were infectious dermatoses(33.25%), eczematous dermatoses (11.49%), drug reactions (11.43%), vascular dermatoses (6.81%) and group of pruritus, prurigo nodularis and urticaria (hives) (4.71%). Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4631248/ /pubmed/26560228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153664 Text en © 2015 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Eidt, Letícia Maria
Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title_full Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title_fullStr Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title_short Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
title_sort prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years
topic Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631248/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26560228
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153664
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