Impact of a dermatology wiki website on dermatology education

The impact factor of Dermatology.

A journal has recently published a paper on the impact factor of dermatology journals [1]. Data concerning Dermatology are flawed: We are credited (table 2) to have published (only) 459 papers from 1981 to 1993, when the exact figure is 1,954. The number of ‘source items’ that is apparently the number of articles considered by Dubin and Arndt worth including in their calculation for Dermatology...

Rising drug costs: the impact on dermatology.

In the US prescription drug costs are rising faster than any other component of health care expenditures, and show no signs of slowing. Spending on prescription drugs has been estimated by the Health Care Finance Administration (HCFA) to be rising by approximately 12% per year, more than twice the rate for national health care expenditures (5.1%). Factors driving the rise in prescription drug c...

Measuring impact of JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps section on training in US dermatology residency programs.

IMPORTANCE JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries are intended to aid in the interpretation of the literature to make it more practical and applicable to daily patient care. Practice Gaps commentaries have had an impact on physician clinical practice and dermatology residency curricula. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries on dermatology residency...

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a hyperactivity and hypertrophy of the sebaceous glands. In the condition known as seborrhceic dermatitis, however, the study of the histopathology leads Brimacombe to assert that there is a diminution of activity and sometimes an atrophy of the sebaceous glands, with an increase in size and function of the coil glands, the secretion being mainly sudoriparous. This is compensatory for the loss ...

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