TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Hospital Acquired Rashes A1 - Wilson, Barbara D. A2 - Soutor, Carol A2 - Hordinsky, Maria K. Y1 - 2022 N1 - T2 - Clinical Dermatology: Diagnosis and Management of Common Disorders, 2e AB - Hospitalized patients frequently have cutaneous problems that the attending physician will need to assess. Skin disorders occur in as many as one third of all inpatients.1,2 These problems range from those unrelated to the hospitalization and inconsequential at that time, to those that could indicate life threatening disorders of the skin or serious underlying systemic disease. The challenges to correctly diagnosing and treating a skin problem in a hospitalized patient is influenced by both access to timely dermatological consultation and the lack of adequate dermatologic training received by many non-dermatologist physicians or advanced care providers.3 It is well known that referring physicians' dermatologic diagnoses and those of dermatologic consultants concur in less than half of inpatient episodes.4–8 Implicit in this observation is the risk that many patients could receive improper, costly or even harmful treatments or no treatment at all. Improper or delayed diagnoses and treatment can lead to prolonged hospitalizations and higher readmission rates.8,9 Some papers now address ways for inpatient dermatology to be more available by including the utilization of teledermatology.10–12 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1190939133 ER -