NCT02012751

Nevus Doctor Clinical Decision Support

Nevus Doctor Clinical Decision Support Program for Pigmented Skin Lesions and Melanoma

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 49 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital of North Norway · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The "Nevus doctor" is a dermatoscopy based computer decision support tool to assist general practitioners (GPs) in the classification of pigmented skin lesions (PSLs). The aim of the program "Nevus doctor" is to help GPs increase their diagnostic accuracy, in particular regarding the selection of suspicious PSLs that need biopsy or referral to specialist health care for further assessment. The aim of this study is to investigate the diagnostic performance of the decision support tool in a primary care setting in Norway. We hypothesize that the diagnostic accuracy of the computer program "Nevus doctor" is better than the performance of the GPs.

Detailed description

In the trial GPs examine patients who attend a primary health care center. A given PSL is first assessed clinically by the GP and afterwards photographed. A clinical photograph as well as a dermatoscopic photograph is taken, the latter using a dermatoscope attached to the lens of the camera. The dermatoscopic image is then processed by the computer program. The performance of "Nevus doctor" is compared with the GPs' assessment. A dermatologist reviews all cases based on the clinical and dermatoscopic photographs and this assessment serves as the reference standard.

Conditions

• Nevus
• Melanoma

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Nevus doctor program	The Nevus doctor program supplies a diagnostic category of pigmented skin lesions based on dermatoscopy images.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-10-01
• Primary completion: 2016-09-01
• Completion: 2016-09-01
• First posted: 2013-12-16
• Last updated: 2016-10-28

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway