ReviewTeledermatology for diagnosis and management of skin conditions: A systematic review
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Topic development and technical expert panel
This topic was nominated by the Center for Chronic Disease Outcomes Research, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center in consultation with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Evidence Synthesis Program. Three clinicians with clinical and/or research experience in teledermatology served on the Technical Expert Panel (TEP) for the project. The TEP and the VA Department of Health Services Research and Development collaborated with the Minneapolis VA Evidence Synthesis Program to identify
Literature flow
The OVID MEDLINE search yielded 560 references with 3 duplicates for a total of 557 references. The PubMed search yielded 587 references. When the results from these searches were combined, 486 duplicate references were eliminated resulting in 658 titles and abstracts for review. From the 658 titles and abstracts, 472 references were excluded. The full text of 186 references was then reviewed and another 108 references were excluded resulting in a total of 78 studies included in the report. Fig
Conclusions
In general, diagnostic accuracy of clinic dermatology was better than SAF teledermatology. Both SAF and LI teledermatology had acceptable diagnostic accuracy and concordance compared with clinic dermatology. Little information exists on the impact of teledermatology on clinical outcomes and management compared with management provided by in-clinic dermatologists. This may be particularly important for dermatologic conditions with potentially serious outcomes (eg, malignant conditions). Patient
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This material is based on work supported, in part, by the Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans Health Administration, Office of Research and Development, Evidence Synthesis Program, Project #09-009. The full report is available at: http://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/publications/esp/.
Conflicts of interest: None declared.
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the position or policy of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the US government.
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