Adherence to melanoma screening and surveillance skin check schedules tailored to personal risk.
This month we present a very interesting read. This is a study exploring what happens when patients do a formal melanoma risk assessment, and are then risk-stratified to specific follow-up intervals.
Compliance was not very high among patients and clinicians, for a variety of reasons!
This is worth reading and thinking about what might be implementable in your own practice.
– Prof David Wilkinson
Read another research summary from Prof David Wilkinson: Full‐body skin exams (focusing on concealed sites)
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