To the Editor: A number of commentaries and articles have been published recently about the ability of doctors working in primary care skin cancer clinics to diagnose and manage skin cancer.1-3 However, limited information has been published comparing the patient populations that attend the different service providers (ie, “traditional” general practitioners versus doctors at skin cancer clinics).
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- 1. Wilkinson D, Dick MB, Askew DA. General practitioners with special interests: risk of a good thing becoming bad? Med J Aust 2005; 183: 84-86. <MJA full text>
- 2. Chia ALK, Shumack S. Skin cancer clinics in Australia: workload profile and performance indicators from an analysis of billing data [letter]. Med J Aust 2006; 185: 239-240. <MJA full text>
- 3. Youl PH, Baade PD, Janda M, et al. Diagnosing skin cancer in primary care: how do mainstream general practitioners compare with primary care skin cancer clinic doctors? Med J Aust 2007; 187: 215-220. <MJA full text>
- 4. DiSipio T, Rogers C, Newman B, et al. The Queensland Cancer Risk Study: behavioural risk factor results. Aust N Z J Public Health 2006; 30: 375-382.
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