Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do mainstream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors?
- 20 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 187 (4) , 215-220
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2007.tb01202.x
Abstract
Objective: To measure and compare the casemix and diagnostic accuracy of excised or biopsied skin lesions managed by mainstream general practitioners and doctors within primary care skin cancer clini...Keywords
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