Table 3.
Number and Mean of Dermatologist Rankings of In-Person and Teledermatology Methods
| DIAGNOSTIC METHOD | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| RANK | IN-PERSON | UNCOMPRESSED VIDEO | STORE-AND-FORWARD | COMPRESSED VIDEO |
| 1st | 11 | |||
| 2nd | 8 | 3 | ||
| 3rd | 3 | 8 | ||
| 4th | 11 | |||
| Mean (SD) | 1.0 (0)a | 2.27 (0.47) | 2.72 (0.47)a | 4.0 (0)a |
a
Significantly higher mean ranking for In-Person than any remote method (p = 0.001), significantly higher preference ranking for Store-and-forward versus Compressed Video (p = 0.001), no significant preference differences between Store-and-forward and Uncompressed Video (p = 0.227), Wilcoxon signed rank test, exact method.