A system for sharing routine surgical pathology specimens across institutions: the Shared Pathology Informatics Network

Human Pathology

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1212-1225

  Drake, Thomas A ^a   Braun, Jonathan ^a   Marchevsky, Alberto ^a   Kohane, Isaac S ^b   Fletcher, Christopher ^c   Chueh, Henry ^d   Beckwith, Bruce ^e   Berkowicz, David ^d   Kuo, Frank ^c   Zeng, Qing T ^c   Balis, Ulysses ^d   Holzbach, Ana ^d   McMurry, Andrew ^f   Gee, Connie E ^e   McDonald, Clement J ^g,h   Schadow, Gunther ^g,h   Davis, Mary ^g,h   Hattab, Eyas M ^g   Blevins, Lonnie ^h   Hook, John ^h   Becich, Michael ⁱ   Crowley, Rebecca S ⁱ   Taube, Sheila E ^j   Berman, Jules ^j   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Harvard Medical School Center for Biomedical Informatics   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h REGENSTRIEF INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Database; Informatics; Internet; Pathology; Tissue bank

Indexed keywords

PARAFFIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANCER CENTER; CANCER RESEARCH; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; INTERNET; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION;

HUMANS; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TISSUE BANKS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34250757721     PISSN: 00468177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.humpath.2007.01.007     Document Type: Article

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