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cord-315166-ga6e3lqp	Isoletta, Eugenio	Emergency accesses in Dermatology Department during the Covid‐19 pandemic in a referral third level center in the north of Italy	2020-07-18		.txt	text/plain	1695	102	56	Since February 21 st , 2020, when the first case in Italy was confirmed, an overwhelming number of SARS-CoV-2 infections were detected and hospital organizations have adapted to cope with the emergency, 1,2 . We performed a retrospective review of all dermatological consultations in the ED of IRCSS San Matteo between February 22 nd (date of the first proven autochthonous Covid-19 case) and May 3 rd (date of the end of the "phase 1" of the lockdown). Our aim was to evaluate the impact of the ongoing pandemic on the number of dermatological ED consultation, on the severity of cases presented to the ED with cutaneous symptoms, and on the diagnoses at discharge. The first finding emerging from our data was a dramatic reduction in the request for dermatological ED consultations during the COVID pandemic comparing to the same period in 2019, from 164 patients to 33, with an absolute difference of -79.9 percentage points ( Table 1 ).	./cache/cord-315166-ga6e3lqp.txt	./txt/cord-315166-ga6e3lqp.txt