Recognizing the haystack is the task of the primary care physician

In a reply to our letter Ferrandiz and colleagues wondered why dermoscopy experts did not already fully embrace teledermoscopy (TD) for suspicious pigmented skin lesions.¹ Our study showed that the structure of the health systems that were investigated differed, with countries where primary care physicians (PCP) hold a gate keeper function and others with direct access to a dermatologist. Significant differences in waiting time and travel distance were observed.² Since we believe that there is enough evidence that the addition of high quality dermoscopic pictures to a teleconsultation leads to higher accuracy of the diagnosis we did not investigate this question in our survey.

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