Changes in Patient Perception and Behavior following Mohs Micrographic Surgery
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Mohs micrographic surgery (MMS) is used for the removal of difficult or recurrent skin cancer. Little is known about the behavioral changes of patients who have undergone this procedure. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to document patients' long-term psychological and behavioral changes following MMS. METHODS: A survey was mailed to a sample of 260 persons who underwent the Mohs procedure in 1997. It included questions on sunscreen use, level of anxiety about cancer, patient confidence in MMS, and changes in high-risk habits. RESULTS: The study included 214 patients who responded to our mailed questionnaire. Trends showed an increase in some but not all preventative measures taken to avoid skin cancer recurrence post-MMS. Other healthy lifestyle changes, such as decreased cigarette smoking, were not noted. CONCLUSION: Mohs micrographic surgery has an impact on some aspects of patients' health-related behavior, especially skin cancer prevention. Other aspects which are not affected may be targets for extra patient education.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".