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. 2024 Feb 12:7:e52400.
doi: 10.2196/52400.

Direct-to-Patient Mobile Teledermoscopy: Prospective Observational Study

Winnie Fan #  1 , Gunnar Mattson #  1 , Amanda Twigg  1   2
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Direct-to-Patient Mobile Teledermoscopy: Prospective Observational Study

Winnie Fan et al. JMIR Dermatol. .

Abstract

Direct-to-patient mobile teledermoscopy is a feasible and useful adjunct to smartphone imaging for monitoring patient-identified lesions of concern, achieving comparable diagnostic and management accuracy as in-office dermatology.

Keywords: dermatological; dermatology; dermoscopy; diagnoses; diagnosis; diagnostic; diagnostic concordance; direct-to-patient; eHealth; full body skin exam; image; images; imaging; lesion; lesions; mHealth; mobile health; mobile teledermoscopy; skin; smartphone; teledermatology; telehealth; telemedicine.

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Conflicts of Interest: None declared.

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Study participant recruitment flow diagram.
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