TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Hospital-Acquired Rashes A1 - Wilson, Barbara D. A2 - Soutor, Carol A2 - Hordinsky, Maria K. PY - 2017 T2 - Clinical Dermatology AB - Hospitalized patients frequently have cutaneous problems that the attending physician will need to assess. These problems can range from those unrelated to the hospitalization and inconsequential at that time, to those that could be indicative of serious underlying systemic disease or even imminent life-threatening disorders of the skin. The challenge to correctly diagnose and treat a skin problem in a hospitalized patient is influenced by the lack of both access to timely dermatological consultation in some settings1 and dermatologic training received by many physicians. It is well known that referring physicians' dermatologic diagnoses and those of dermatologic consultants concur in less than half of the inpatient episodes.2–5 Implicit in this observation is the risk that many patients could then receive improper, costly, or even harmful treatments or no treatment at all. In a study of inpatient consults by Mancusi and Festa Neto in 2010, the primary doctor endorsed by questionnaire the idea that the consultation was very relevant to the hospitalization or addressed a serious dermatological problem in 31% of cases, and in another 58%, the consultation facilitated diagnosis of skin diseases that were important even if unrelated to the admitting diagnosis.3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1177006586 ER -