Table 3.
Time and effort associated with gathering necessary clinical information
| Missing clinical information >/= 50% of the time | |
| Melanocytic proliferations | 298 (54%) |
| Non-melanocytic neoplasms | 318 (57%) |
| Inflammatory dermatoses | 328 (59%) |
| Average time spent searching for clinical information | |
| None | 21 (4%) |
| Less than 30 minutes | 302 (52%) |
| 30 minutes or more | 261 (44%) |
| Case Vignette | |
| Level of comfort with rendering diagnosis | |
| Very comfortable | 126 (22%) |
| Moderately comfortable | 293 (50%) |
| Not at all comfortable | 162 (28%) |
| Need for additional clinical information to render accurate histopathologic interpretation | |
| No | 145 (27%) |
| Yes | 387 (73%) |
| Need for additional elaboration on histopathologic findings within ‘comment’ field of pathology report | |
| Usually | 262 (45%) |
| Maybe but not always | 206 (35%) |
| Rarely | 102 (18%) |
| Never | 12 (2%) |
| Physicians’ Stress from Uncertainty scale | |
| Vague clinical impressions or missing relevant clinical information in DP makes me uneasy | |
| Strongly disagree | 28 (5%) |
| Moderately disagree | 24 (4%) |
| Moderately agree | 265 (45%) |
| Strongly agree | 272 (46%) |
| I find the absence of clinical information in DP practice disconcerting | |
| Stromgly disagree | 33 (6%) |
| Moderately disagree | 27 (5%) |
| Moderately agree | 201 (34%) |
| Strongly agree | 324 (55%) |