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Emergency accesses in Dermatology Department during the Covid‐19 pandemic in a referral third level center in the north of Italy
- Source :
- Dermatologic Therapy
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2020.
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Abstract
- During the lockdown period most planned visits have been postponed and the number of accesses to Emergency Department (ED) has dramatically reduced. The aim of our study is to analyze the impact of the lockdown on the number, type and severity of Dermatological ED diagnosis. We performed a retrospective review of all dermatological consultations in the ED of IRCSS San Matteo during the lockdown period in Italy (February 22nd ‐ May third 2020) and compared them with those from the same period in 2019. We noticed a sharply reduction in the number of dermatological consultations requested in the ED: from 164 patients in 2019 to 33 in 2020. Some diagnostic categories showed a significant difference with a higher incidence of vasculopathic lesions (0.6% vs 12.1%, P
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Time Factors
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Referral
Emergency Consultations
Dermatology
Skin Diseases
SARS‐CoV‐2
Health Services Accessibility
Short Papers
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
COVID‐19
Pandemic
Scabies
Medicine
Short Paper
Humans
Referral and Consultation
Aged
Retrospective Studies
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
Incidence
Dermatology department
Significant difference
COVID-19
Emergency department
General Medicine
Emergency Department
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Italy
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Female
business
Emergency Service, Hospital
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15298019 and 13960296
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dermatologic Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a9760fcaba7da12d8c6c3ad4e2bf7371