1Medical Writer, Huntington, West Virginia, USA 2Department of Dermatology and Skin Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CA 3Department of Dermatology, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan 4Department of Dermatology, Leeds General Infirmary, UK 5Department of Dermatology, University of Munster, Germany 6University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA 7Karolinska Institutet at Dan...

BACKGROUND Australia's health disparity, combined with evolving technologies, has evoked increasing interest and funding in health services that could address inequities. One such emerging service is tele-medicine. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this report is to discuss and evaluate the current literature regarding patient and practitioner satisfaction with tele-medicine, and more specifically tel...

IMPORTANCE JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries are intended to aid in the interpretation of the literature to make it more practical and applicable to daily patient care. Practice Gaps commentaries have had an impact on physician clinical practice and dermatology residency curricula. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries on dermatology residency...

Bahareh Abtahi-Naeini, Hamidreza Sadeghiyan1, Neda Adibi2, Mohammad Reza Shokrollahi3, Mohsen Pourazizi4 Department of Dermatology, Skin Diseases and Leishmaniasis Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 1Department of Dermatology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, 2Department of Dermatology, Psychosomatic Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, ...

1Dermatology & Genetic Medicine, Division of Molecular Medicine, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 2Department of Dermatology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK 3Laboratory of Gene Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 4Center for Integrated Medical Research, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 5Department of Dermatology, Keio University School o...

British Association of Dermatologists and British Photodermatology Group guidelines for the safe and effective use of psoralen–ultraviolet A therapy 2015 T.C. Ling, T.H. Clayton, J. Crawley, L.S. Exton, V. Goulden, S. Ibbotson, K. McKenna, M.F. Mohd Mustapa, L.E. Rhodes, R. Sarkany and R.S. Dawe Dermatology Centre and Dermatology Research Centre, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, Salford R...

1 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 2 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, Private Clinic for Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology and Surgery, Sofia 1407, Bulgaria; 3 Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany; 4 Univers...

1 Permanent Assistant Physician, Dermatology Clinic, Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Belo Horizonte – Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil; and Instructor, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais (FCMMG) – Belo Horizonte (MG), Brazil 2 Head, Dermatology Department, Hospital do Servidor Público Municipal de São Paulo – São Paulo (SP), Brazil 3 Volunteer Physician, Dermatology Department, Hospital do ...

In a number of important clinical issues such as evaluation of the efficacy or effectiveness of therapeutic or preventive interventions as well as for comparing the harms of interventions, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) provide the highest levels of evidence, either directly or indirectly. It is obvious that critical appraisal of these studies to assess their validity and precision is of p...

A consultative dermatology service plays an important role in patient care and education in the hospital setting. Optimizing education in balance with high-quality dermatology consultative services is both a challenge and an opportunity for dermatology consultation teams. There is an emergence of new information about how dermatology can best be taught in the hospital, much of which relies on p...