Skin diseases in hospitalized geriatrics: a 9-year analysis from a University Dermatology Center in Germany.

ABSTRACT: The demographic trend of an ageing society is mirrored in the rising number of hospitalized geriatric patients in Germany. However, there is still a wide gap of knowledge regarding the dermatological diseases, comorbidities and performed procedures within this growingly important group of patients. The study was conducted as a retrospective monocentric data analysis of all patients 65 years or older from the Department of Dermatology, Medical Center-University of Freiburg, Germany. In total, 10,009 individual hospitalisations were included from 2009 to 2017, and there was a notable increase of geriatric patients in the study period. This study illustrates the following: leading major diagnoses included malignant neoplasm of the head and neck, ulcerated and non-ulcerated inflammatory spectr

SUBMITTER: Ansorge C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9163006 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature