Margarita Rubio, María Sánchez-Ronco, Rosa Mohedano, Asunción Hernando
The impact of participatory teaching methods on medical students' perception of their abilities and knowledge of epidemiology and statistics
PloS one
recent data reveal marked rise detection mortality rates desmoplastic malignant melanoma dmm trend underscores imperative indepth analysis dmms epidemiology crucial formulation precise medical public health strategies investigation seeks elucidate variations incidence mortality dmm 15year period 20052019 data dmm patients sourced surveillance epidemiology end results seer database incidence incidencebased mortality rates ibm directly extracted seer database joinpoint regression used analyze calculate average annual percent change aapc 95 confidence interval ci 2005 2019 3384 dmm cases identified boasting ageadjusted incidence rate 363 cases per 1000000 personyears 95 ci 351376 ibm 165cases per 1000000 personyears 95 ci 157174 2353 males 6953 1031 females 3047 1894 patients 5597 70 years old predominantly dmm lesions manifested exposed areas limbs 955 2822 face 906 2677 scalp neck 865 2556 incidence dmm increased significantly rate apc 09 20052019 incidencebased mortality showed significant upward trend apc 7 20052012 slowly increasing trend apc 06 20122019 contrast modest upward trajectory female incidence mortality male incidence initially surged later declining male mortality peaked stabilized post2012 primary sites incidence mortality chronically sunexposed areas face scalp neck limbs recent years incidence incidencebased mortality dmm significantly increased subgroup analysis different trends trends provide better support exploration dmm