Publications by authors named "Michelle L Pennie"
Objective: To assess health care resources consumed by melanoma in the population 65 years or older, a group with comparatively poor outcomes.
Design: Database analysis.
Setting: The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare-linked population-based database for fiscal years 1991 through 1996.
Objective: To determine whether a difference in melanoma outcomes exists in the United States between tumors detected by dermatologists vs those detected by nondermatologists.
Design: Retrospective analysis of linked data from the Medicare enrollment and claims files from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program database from 1991 to 1996. The registries are from 12 US sites.
Background: Solid organ transplant recipients on high doses of immunosuppression are at increased risk for the development of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
Objective: The objective was to assess the possible factors impacting quality of life (QOL) in solid organ transplant recipients.
Methods: Patients were seen in a dermatology clinic integrated within the transplant center at a university-based hospital.
Background: Primary care physicians (PCPs) are often expected to screen for melanomas and refer patients with suspicious pigmented lesions to dermatologists.
Objective: To assess whether there is a difference between dermatologists and PCPs in accurately diagnosing melanoma and appropriately managing (based on decisions to refer/biopsy) suspicious pigmented lesions.
Design, Participants: A survey based on a random sample of 30 photographs of pigmented lesions with known pathology was administered to 101 dermatologists and 115 PCPs from October 2001 to January 2003.