Development of an electronic breast pathology database in a community health system

• Main Authors: Heidi D Nelson (Author), Roshanthi Weerasinghe (Author), Maritza Martel (Author), Carlo Bifulco (Author), Ted Assur (Author), Joann G Elmore (Author), Donald L Weaver (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Health care systems rely on electronic patient data, yet access to breast tissue pathology results continues to depend on interpreting dictated free-text reports. Objective: The objective was to develop a method to electronically search and categorize pathologic diagnoses of patients...