Hidradenitis suppurativa: The importance of virtual outpatient care during COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: raed.alhusayen@sunnybrook.ca.

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Monica Shah et al. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Jul.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.04.142. Epub 2020 May 1.

¹ Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Dermatology, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: raed.alhusayen@sunnybrook.ca.

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Strategic dermatology clinical operations during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
Price KN, Thiede R, Shi VY, Curiel-Lewandrowski C. Price KN, et al. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020 Jun;82(6):e207-e209. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2020.03.089. Epub 2020 Apr 8. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2020. PMID: 32277972 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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