title: Skin cancer medicine in primary care: towards an agenda for quality health outcomes.
abstract: The number of skin cancer clinics functioning within Australia's primary care environment is increasing rapidly, and significant concerns have been raised about the type and quality of work done by some doctors in some clinics. Mainstream general practice is threatened by perceived fragmentation, and specialist practice in dermatology and plastic surgery is threatened by encroachment into their domains of practice. We propose an agenda of training, standards, accreditation, audit and research to ensure that skin cancer clinics provide optimal health outcomes for patients.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia. david.wilkinson@uq.edu.au
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bourne
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kitchener
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D001315:Australia; D003880:Dermatology / Q000193:education* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*