A Large Skin Cancer Screening Quality Initiative: Description and First-Year Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The lack of prospective randomized clinical trials demonstrating that full-body skin examination (FBSE) reduces melanoma morbidity or mortality has prompted an "I" rating from the United States Preventive Services Task Force for population-based skin cancer screening. More data on these screening programs are needed.

Objectives

To describe a skin cancer screening quality initiative in a large health care system and to determine if the intervention was associated with screening of a demographically higher-risk population than previous screening programs and if melanoma incidence and thickness differed in screened vs unscreened patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This observational evaluation of a prospectively implemented quality initiative was condu

SUBMITTER: Ferris LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5552417 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature