Influence of Ambient Stressors and Time Constraints on Diagnostic Accuracy of Borderline Pigmented Skin Lesions

Health professionals are required to make complex decisions in dynamic contexts involving many variables and factors. Decisions are more difficult in the presence of uncertainty, urgency and high risk.To evaluate the effect of ambient stressors and time constraints on decision making by expert dermatologists faced with borderline pigmented skin lesions (PSL) (early melanoma vs. atypical nevi).We performed a retrospective chart review of PSL from...