Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Renshaw, Andrew A
• Gould, Edwin W

Titel

Do Synoptic Reports Add Value in Prostate Needle Biopsies?

Ist Teil von

• Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine (1976), 2019-08, Vol.143 (8), p.910-911

Ort / Verlag

United States: College of American Pathologists

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]in our system each core is submitted as a single specimen and is identified by a capital letter followed by a period (eg, A., B.), so the total number of cores was identified by identifying the last capital letter followed by a period and correlating this with its position in the alphabet. [...]the rationale for including synoptic reports is unclear if the same information can be obtained simply by using a different automated process to extract the information. [...]as we have documented previously,11 our system for structured data set construction from synoptic reports is highly effective and relies on free text searches of the final report rather than the upfront construction of these data sets that the eCC uses. Since synoptic reports for prostate needle biopsies already have a history of being problematic to implement, and our data suggest that there is essentially no benefit to implementing them when pathologists are using a consistent format for their reports, the members of the CAP would be better served if the CAP directed their efforts at expanding the use of synoptic reports in areas with better cost/ benefit ratios.