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Redefining the number needed to excise
Author(s) -
Chen Lucy,
Dusza Stephen,
Grazzini Marta,
Blum Andreas,
Marghoob Ashfaq
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
australasian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.67
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 1440-0960
pISSN - 0004-8380
DOI - 10.1111/ajd.12039
Subject(s) - medicine , metric (unit) , excise , melanoma , dermatology , clinical practice , family medicine , cancer research , operations management , economics , macroeconomics
The number needed to excise ( NNE ) is a metric used to convey the efficiency of dermatological practice by serving as a gauge for the diagnostic accuracy of melanoma. Rather than an NNE for melanoma alone, we assert that the NNE should measure all skin cancer types and we present data on NNE from two clinical sites demonstrating the utility and trends in NNE over time.