Which dermatology patients attend to Dermatology Outpatient Clinics during the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak in Turkey and what happened to them?
Adult
Aged
Ambulatory Care Facilities
/ statistics & numerical data
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Comorbidity
Coronavirus Infections
/ epidemiology
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
/ epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2
Skin Diseases
/ epidemiology
Turkey
/ epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
dermatology
Journal
Dermatologic therapy
ISSN: 1529-8019
Titre abrégé: Dermatol Ther
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9700070
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
07
04
2020
accepted:
23
04
2020
pubmed:
30
4
2020
medline:
26
11
2020
entrez:
30
4
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Coronavirus disease, first emerged in Wuhan, rapidly spread all over the world since December 2019. There are concerns about elective dermatology appointments and its results. Herein, we aimed to find out which type of dermatologic patients attended to dermatology outpatient clinic. The patients visiting the clinics for elective dermatologic diseases between March 11 and 18, 2020, were included in this study. Their age, sex, diagnosis of disease, requirement for emergent intervention, and their medical records about COVID-19 were obtained. There were 390 patients attending to the dermatology outpatient clinic in this period. The most common disease was acne (N: 94, 24%), only 19% of patients need emergent interventions or dose adjustment. There were 40 (10%) patients over the age of 65. After their visits, five patients were diagnosed as COVID-19 in 2weeks. Dermatologic examinations may be a vector for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission since being closed to the patient. Five of our patients were diagnosed as COVID-19 after their elective visit to hospital. Since the asymptomatic course of some young patients, most of our patients were not screened for COVID-19. Our findings support the concerns of elective physician examinations.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32347618
doi: 10.1111/dth.13470
pmc: PMC7235476
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
e13470Informations de copyright
© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
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