Consensus on pre-examination and triage in clinic of dermatology during outbreak of COVID-19 from Chinese experts

The 2019 novel coronavirus infection has brought a great challenge in prevention and control of the national epidemic of COVID-19 in China. During the fight against the epidemic of COVID-19, properly carrying out pre-examination and triage for patients with skin lesions and fever has been a practical problem encountered in hospitals for skin diseases as well as clinics of dermatology in general hospitals. Considering that certain skin diseases may have symptom of fever, and some of the carriers of 2019 novel coronavirus and patients with COVID-19 at their early stage may do not present any symptoms of COVID-19, to properly deal with the visitors to clinics of dermatology, the Chinese Society of Dermatology organized experts to formulate the principles and procedures for pre-examination and triage of visitors to clinics of dermatology during the epidemic of COVID-19. Corresponding authors: Dr. Qian-Jin Lu, Department of Dermatology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410011, China. E-mail: qianlu5860@csu.edu.cn; Dr. Zhi-Rong Yao, Department of Dermatology, Xinhua Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200092, China. E-mail: dermatology.yao@sohu.com. Received 2 March, 2020 Conflicts of interest: The authors reported no conflicts of interest. #The Chinese version of this has been published on Chinese Journal of Dermatology, 2020,53(3):165-167. doi: 10.35541/cjd.20200119. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CCBY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 © 2020 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.