Improvement of efficacy in surgical management of facial basal cell carcinoma: an interdisciplinary pilot study in The Netherlands

Background The increasing incidence of basal cell carcinoma demands for an improvement of current health care management to gain more efficacies in the interdisciplinary treatment of facial basal cell carcinoma. We prospectively evaluated the level of agreement between referring dermatologists and plastic surgeons to assess in which cases routine pre-operative consultation of patients with facial basal cell carcinoma was not required for surgical treatment by plastic surgeons.