Table 2.

Modes and quality of clinical communication by predominant referral base

Referral Type	Dermatology only (N=311)	Primary Care, General Surgery, Pathology (N=259)
Role as a dermatopathologist
Role 1 – Provide specific histopathologic diagnosis and description of findings.	26/290 (9%)	19/235 (8%)
Role 2 – Provide clinically meaningful histopathologic interpretation and guidance on decision making and specific histopathologic diagnosis and description of findings	260/290 (90%)	214/235 (91%)
Level of satisfaction or dissatisfaction with paper/electronic requisition forms used by requesting clinicians for conveying clinical information related to skin biopsy specimens
Very or somewhat satisfied	196/287 (68%)	134/233 (58%)
Very or somewhat dissatisfied	91/287 (32%)	99/233 (42.5%)
For information that is provided by requesting clinicians, please rate the quality of that information
Good, very good or excellent	188/297 (63%)	117/242 (48%)
Fair or poor	109/297 (37%)	125/242 (52%)
In your experience, how important is the dermatologic experience of the requesting clinician to the quality of the clinical information provided?
Very or somewhat important	279/293 (95%)	236/244 (97%)
Not important	14/293 (5%)	8/244 (3%)