Retrospective evaluation of hospitalized patients that are consulted to rheumatology department

In our study, the inpatients who were requested consultation from Rheumatology Department from February 1, 2015 to January 31, 2017 were evaluated. Patients were scanned from the hospital electronic patient file system. The clinic requiring consultation, the reason for hospitalization, age, gender, whether ornot there is a known rheumatologic diagnosis, the reason for the consultation, and theresults of the consultation were recorded as whether or not they were diagnosed as rheumatologic. A total of 1021 consultations were examined. A total of 770 different patientswere requested for consultation. Patients were divided into two groups according totheir rheumatologic diagnosis. Patients with rheumatologic diagnosis were consulted in four subcategories asconsultation purpose preoperative, treatment regimen, association of rheumatologic pathology with another pathology and other reasons. It was recorded in which clinicthe patients were recruited.The reasons for the consultation of patients without a rheumatologic disease diagnosis were examined in four subcategories as symptoms and clinical findings,radiological findings, pathologic findings and laboratory findings. It was evaluated whether the physician requesting consultation indicated preliminary diagnosis and whether the patient was diagnosed or not.Of the 396 untrained patients, 68 (17.2%) were diagnosed. There is a statistically significant relationship between pre-diagnosis and diagnosis with 95% accuracy. In our study, the consultations directed to the rheumatology polyclinic wereinvestigated and the reasons for the consultation and the desired consultations were investigated in relation to the rheumatologic diseases. Thus, it was tried to find out which of the reasons for referral and reasons for consultation resulted in more rheumatological disease diagnosis.