15724 Homeless patients receive different care for common skin diagnoses: An intradermatologist analysis

Abstract

Homeless individuals have significant skin disease attributable to environmental exposures, lack of access to medical resources, and inconsistent health care. However, disparities in how clinicians manage common dermatologic conditions in homeless patients relative to other patients has yet to be explored. We performed a retrospective review of patients seen from 2011 to 2017 at a referral-based dermatology clinic for the homeless. Patients diagnosed with common skin conditions, including actinic keratosis (AK; n = 157), dermatitis (n = 58), warts (n = 38), or acne (n = 27), were age-, sex-, diagnosis-, and provider-matched 1:5 to non-homeless patients seen at the University of Utah’s dermatology clinics.