title: Prevalence of dermatoses in dermatologic evaluation requests from patients admitted to a tertiary hospital for 10 years.
abstract: Skin diseases are common in hospitalized patients. However, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency. The objective of this study is to evaluate the prevalence of dermatological diagnoses in hospitalized patients after consultation requested by non-dermatologist physicians to the Department of Dermatology, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre period of 10 years. A total of 5685 patients were evaluated, representing an average of 48.2 patients per month. The five most frequent groups were infectious dermatoses(33.25%), eczematous dermatoses (11.49%), drug reactions (11.43%), vascular dermatoses (6.81%) and group of pruritus, prurigo nodularis and urticaria (hives) (4.71%).
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lia Dias Pinheiro
authors.initials: LD
authors.lastname: Dantas
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lucio
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bakos
authors.affiliation: Health Department of the city of Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Balbinot
authors.affiliation: São Leopoldo, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carine Elisabete Rost
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Drechsler
authors.affiliation: Health Department of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Letícia Maria
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Eidt
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data