On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:29, john dooley wrote: > In real live clinical practice snomeding a histopathology report is a > complete waste of my time and a complete chore to do. > > its totally automated or count me out from my point of view. > > Whats wrong with free text search engines..
"xyz has not the features of a melanoma / squamous cell carcinoma / whatever key word ..." Emphasis on the *not* - such text are common, and if there is no dedicated "diagnosis" section in the text that's parseable, free text analysis hunting just for key words out of context is problematic. I'd love to have coded histopath - I am currently in the process of wading manually through more than 2000 reports to review my own performance regarding pre-op diagnostic accuracy, free margins, and wound infection rate depending on site and size (well, actually my poor daughter does most of the wading in order to resuscitate her ailing bank account) Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
