Image training, using random images of melanoma, performs as well as the ABC(D) criteria in enabling novices to distinguish between melanoma and mimics of melanoma

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 265-270

  Robertson, Karen ^a   Mcintosh, Robert D ^a   Bradley Scott, Cerys ^a   Macfarlane, Sarah ^a   Rees, Jonathan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ABCD; Diagnosis; Image training; Melanoma; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ABC METHOD; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE TRAINING; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; MELANOMA; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRAINING; WEB BROWSER; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL STAFF; MIDDLE AGED; NOMENCLATURE; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SKIN TUMOR; TASK PERFORMANCE; YOUNG ADULT;

ABBREVIATIONS AS TOPIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899921689     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: 16512057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1733     Document Type: Article

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