Dermatology in hospital practice.
Modern hospital facilities have proved of great value in the management of the more difficult problems presenting to dermatologists. In a series of 100 consecutive patients admitted to hospital, four died, at least one out of every three was found to have undiagnosed internal disease and the average time to gain a remission was three weeks after outpatient treatment had proved unsuccessful over an average of six months.
D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*