Acutely ill patients in Internal Medicine Departments want treatment for undiagnosed, symptomatic skin conditions

Dermatology

Volumn 225, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 115-120

  Goeksu, Yasemin ^a   Zimmerli, Lukas U ^b,c   Braun, Ralph P ^a   Klaghofer, Richard ^b   French, Lars E ^a   Battegay, Edouard ^b,c   Navarini, Alexander A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MultimorbidityNET Stud Grp for Inter and Transdisciplinary Coop in Research on Multimorbidity   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dermatoses; Internal medicine; Prevalence; Quality of life; Skin care

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC ELASTOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; CHERRY HEMANGIOMA; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX; ELASTOSIS; FEMALE; HIRSUTISM; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTRICHOSIS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LENTIGO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL DYSTROPHY; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; ONYCHORRHEXIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POIKILODERMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; SEBACEOUS GLAND HYPERPLASIA; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SPIDER VEIN; TELANGIECTASIA; VERRUCA VULGARIS; XEROSIS; XEROSIS CUTIS;

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SKIN CARE; SKIN DISEASES; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84870792121     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: 14219832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342177     Document Type: Article

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