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Rationalizing Outcome Measures in Dermatologic Surgery

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Dermatologic surgery, including cancer surgery, cosmetic surgery, and laser and energy device procedures, is a well-established branch of dermatology known for minimally invasive, effective, and safe solutions to patient problems. Over time, clinical research pertaining to dermatologic surgery has improved in terms of methodologic rigor, with dermatologic surgery accounting for a large proportion of the comparative effectiveness studies and randomized controlled trials in dermatology. Further improvements in the quality of studies examining dermatologic surgery therapies will require understanding and overcoming several remaining challenges.

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Murad Alam, Ian A. Maher, Joseph F. Sobanko, Simon S. Yoo, Mathew M. Avram, Hayes B. Gladstone, Andrei Metelitsa, Marian E. Northington, Zakia Rahman, Thuzar M. Shin, and Todd V. Cartee declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 676 N. St Clair St, Ste 1600, Chicago, IL, 60611, USA

    Murad Alam & Simon S. Yoo

  2. Department of Dermatology, Saint Louis University, 1755 S. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO, 63104, USA

    Ian A. Maher

  3. Department of Dermatology, University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Civic Center Boulevard, Suite 1-330S, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Joseph F. Sobanko & Thuzar M. Shin

  4. Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Blossom Street, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Mathew M. Avram

  5. Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 50 Staniford, Boston, MA, 02114, USA

    Mathew M. Avram

  6. 101 Park Place, Suite 200, San Ramon, CA, 94583, USA

    Hayes B. Gladstone

  7. Institute for Skin Advancement, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Andrei Metelitsa

  8. Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, EFH 414, 1530 3rd Ave S, Birmingham, AL, 35294, USA

    Marian E. Northington

  9. Department of Dermatology, Stanford University, 450 Broadway St, Redwood City, CA, 94063, USA

    Zakia Rahman

  10. Department of Dermatology, Penn State Hershey Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 500 University Drive, UPC 1, Suite 100, Hershey, PA, 17033, USA

    Todd V. Cartee

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Alam, M., Maher, I.A., Sobanko, J.F. et al. Rationalizing Outcome Measures in Dermatologic Surgery. Curr Derm Rep 4, 140–146 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13671-015-0106-5

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