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R V Sideli

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PubMed1991

Quality assurance in a fine-needle aspiration biopsy service.

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is an increasingly popular tool for the evaluation of a variety of palpable and nonpalpable masses. Its acceptance has been based on its simplicity, safety, and accuracy. It is its accuracy that is crucial and that requires careful clinical and/or histologic follow-up. In order to satisfy our own department's quality assurance requirements, we developed a computer-based searching program that effectively identifies FNAB cases in which there was histologic follow-up and retrieves the necessary information to produce a meaningful quality assurance report.

Biopsy, Needle↗
PubMed1991

Validating patient names in an integrated clinical information system.

Methods for validating patient names during the upload of clinical records are described. Exact string matching, Soundex method and a pattern matching algorithm (LCS method) are described and compared to a manual analysis of 10000 patient name pairs. In addition, the types of spelling and typographical errors that occur in patient names in the pathology database at CPMC are described. The data analysis shows that the LCS method performs better than the other techniques when compared to manual analysis.

Algorithms↗
PubMed1989

Lymph node hemangioma.

Lymph node hemangiomas are rare lesions. There have been two previous articles on the subject in the literature. We describe another case in which a lymph node was surgically removed from the inguinal region of a 4 1/2-year-old boy, with a five-month history of a right-sided groin mass. The literature was reviewed, regarding some vasoformative benign lymph node lesions, and a general working classification of these lesions is listed, as we attempted to recognize possible patterns in reactive-proliferative processes and separate them from true neoplasms with hamartomatous features.

Child, Preschool↗
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Using the UMLS to bring the library to the bedside.

This paper presents an algorithm that can be used to convert ICD9 terms to related MeSH terms. Preliminary evaluation indicates that together, the algorithm and the UMLS provide a reasonable resource for facilitating such conversions.

Algorithms↗