2-Week wait referrals in suspected skin cancer: Does an instructional module for general practitioners improve diagnostic accuracy?

Surgeon

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 247-251

  Shariff, Z ^a   Roshan, A ^a   Williams, A M ^a   Platt, A J ^a  

^a CASTLE HILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2 Week wait; Diagnostic accuracy; GP education.; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MELANOMA; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DERMATOLOGY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; ENGLAND; FAMILY PRACTICE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, SEBORRHEIC; MELANOMA; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 77955660824     PISSN: 1479666X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surge.2010.03.004     Document Type: Article

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