UQ GP Newsletter for May 2023
The recent publication “Practitioner characteristics, diagnostic accuracy metrics and discovering-individual with respect to 637 melanomas documented by 27 general practitioners on the Skin Cancer Audit Research Database” was featured in the University of Queensland’s GP newsletter for May 2023 as the “Research article focus”.
From the article
“The 3rd publication in the current Skin Cancer Audit Research Database (SCARD) trilogy has just been published with open-access thanks to the UQ affiliation. 27 doctors who recorded all of their data into the SCARD database back in 2013 were asked to review the outcome of the patients who were diagnosed with Melanoma that year.”
“Findings from the previous 2 papers included:
- Melanomas less than or equal to 3mm diameter were more likely to be invasive than larger melanomas
- Not previously known, older patients were more likely to have large diameter melanomas
- For patients younger than 40-years the majority of melanomas were invasive
- Australian Guidelines were adhered to for most diagnostic biopsies GPs definitively managed 74.9% of melanomas
- Of 205 patients with invasive melanoma there were 15 adverse outcomes
- Melanoma-specific 5-year survival was 95.2%”
You can view the newsletter online at https://medical-school.uq.edu.au/files/44674/GPCU%20newsletter%20May%202023.pdf
Reference
Coetzer-Botha M, Jimenez Balcells C, Hay J, Keir J, Rosendahl N, Wilson T, et al. Practitioner characteristics, diagnostic accuracy metrics and discovering-individual with respect to 637 melanomas documented by 27 general practitioners on the Skin Cancer Audit Research Database. Australas J Dermatol. 2023;00:1–11. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajd.14061