Basal Cell Carcinoma Pathology Requests and Reports Are Lacking Important Information

Table 1

Data provided by clinicians in request forms.

Reported data	Dermatologist; (N=72)		Other Specialties; (N=263)		p-value
	Data provided	Data absent	Data provided	Data absent
Lesion history	34 (47%)	38 (53%)	45 (17.1%)	218 (82.9%)	<0.001
Medical history	1 (1.4%)	71 (98.6%)	1 (0.4%)	262 (99.6%)	0.3
Primary vs recurrent	11 (15.3%)	61 (84.7%)	35 (13.3%)	228 (86.7%)	0.6
Biopsy type	60 (83 %)	12 (17%)	194 (73.4%)	70 (26.6%)	0.001
Biopsy site	66 (91. 5%)	6 (8.5%)	255 (96.6%)	9 (3.4%)	0.1