The Webb and Rivera (WAR) score: a preoperative Mohs surgery assessment tool.

Abstract

The Webb and Rivera (WAR) score is a low-effort, efficient, reproducible tool to be used in preoperative Mohs surgery planning and office efficiency improvement.

The components of the score include maximum tumor dimension, recurrence, location, and aggressiveness.

Each is assigned a numerical value that is totaled, resulting in a final quantitative score.

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Subjects

• Appointments and Schedules
• Data Collection
• Dermatology
• Humans
• Mohs Surgery
• Neoplasm Grading
• Neoplasm Recurrence, Local
• Patient Care Planning
• Personnel Staffing and Scheduling
• Preoperative Period
• Random Allocation
• Skin Neoplasms
• Statistics, Nonparametric
• Time Factors
• Tumor Burden

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Authors

• Albert E Rivera
• J Michael Webb
• Lloyd J Cleaver

Publication date

2012-02-21

Journal

Journal topics

• Dermatology

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Archives of dermatology

Department of Dermatology, Northeast Regional Medical Center, Kirksville, Missouri, USA. bo_rivera [at] yahoo.com

Release reference

Arch Dermatol. 2012 Feb;148(2):206-10

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