RT Book, Section
A1 Wilson, Barbara D.
A2 Soutor, Carol
A2 Hordinsky, Maria K.
SR Print(0)
ID 1190939133
T1 Hospital Acquired Rashes
T2 Clinical Dermatology: Diagnosis and Management of Common Disorders, 2e
YR 2022
FD 2022
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781264257379
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190939133
RD 2024/04/17
AB Hospitalized  patients  frequently  have  cutaneous  problems  that  the  attending  physician  will  need  to  assess.  Skin  disorders  occur  in  as  many  as  one  third  of  all  inpatients.1,2  These  problems  range  from  those  unrelated  to  the  hospitalization  and  inconsequential  at  that  time,  to  those  that  could  indicate  life  threatening  disorders  of  the  skin  or  serious  underlying  systemic  disease.  The  challenges  to  correctly  diagnosing  and  treating  a  skin  problem  in  a  hospitalized  patient  is  influenced  by  both  access  to  timely  dermatological  consultation  and  the  lack  of  adequate  dermatologic  training  received  by  many  non-dermatologist  physicians  or  advanced  care  providers.3  It  is  well  known  that  referring  physicians'  dermatologic  diagnoses  and  those  of  dermatologic  consultants  concur  in  less  than  half  of  inpatient  episodes.4–8  Implicit  in  this  observation  is  the  risk  that  many  patients  could  receive  improper,  costly  or  even  harmful  treatments  or  no  treatment  at  all.  Improper  or  delayed  diagnoses  and  treatment  can  lead  to  prolonged  hospitalizations  and  higher  readmission  rates.8,9  Some  papers  now  address  ways  for  inpatient  dermatology  to  be  more  available  by  including  the  utilization  of  teledermatology.10–12