title: The effectiveness of an Internet-based tutorial in improving primary care physicians' skin cancer triage skills.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the efficacy of an Internet-based skin cancer triage intervention for physicians.
  
  
  METHODS
  Physicians were randomly assigned to an intervention group or a control group. The 14 outcome measures included diagnosis and evaluation planning for malignant melanoma, basal cell carcinoma, and squamous cell carcinoma.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Forty-six physicians (27 of 39 in the intervention group) completed the program. The intervention group scored significantly higher than did the control group in nine of 14 outcome measures; this improvement was maintained for five of the nine outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Internet intervention improved physicians' skin cancer diagnosis and evaluation planning test performances.
authors: Division of Behavioral Sciences, University of California San Francisco 94117, USA. gerbert@itsa.ucsf.edu
authors: Barbara
authors: B
authors: Gerbert
authors: Amy
authors: A
authors: Bronstone
authors: Toby
authors: T
authors: Maurer
authors: Timothy
authors: T
authors: Berger
authors: Stephen J
authors: SJ
authors: McPhee
authors: Nona
authors: N
authors: Caspers
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002280:Basal Cell Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis; D002983:Clinical Competence; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000193:education*; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014218:Triage