title: [Proportion of psoriasis in cases treated at the dermatology service at the Sibenik Medical Center over a 5-year period].
abstract: The paper reviews medical record data on psoriasis at the Sibenik Medical Center, Department of Skin Diseases, over a five-year period (1986-1990). Separate analysis was performed for hospital and outpatient departments. Various parameters were analysed, the most important being sex, age, type of disease and occupation. The outpatient department recorded 539 psoriasis patients, 302 (56.0%) males and 237 (44.0%) females. Psoriasis vulgaris was found in 478 (88.7%), arthropathic in 39 (7.2%), pustular in 9 (1.7%) and erythrodermic in 13 (2.4%) patients. Out of a total of 54,129 visits to the outpatient department, 2281 (4.2%) were due to psoriasis. A total of 1598 patients were hospitalized over the same study period, of whom 131 (8.2%) due to psoriasis, i.e. 81 (61.8%) males and 50 (38.2%) females. Psoriasis vulgaris was reported in 92 (70.2%), arthropathic psoriasis in 19 (14.5%), pustular in 9 (6.9%) and erythrodermic in 11 (8.4%) patients. A total of 46,368 hospital days were realized, with an average of 18 inpatient days. Out of those, 4710 (10.2%) were due to psoriasis, the average treatment lasting 16.7 days. In relation to the incidence and nature of this disease, as well as to health care costs, it can be concluded that psoriasis represents not only a serious medicosocial but also an economic and public problem.
authors.affiliation: Opća bolnica Sibenik, Sluzba za kozne bolesti. Sibenik.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Balić
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mikulandra
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perisa
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Stojnić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017523:Croatia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011565:Psoriasis / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Udio psorijaze u kazuistici sluzbe za kozne bolesti u Medicinskom centru Sibenik u petogodisnjem razdoblju.