Developing and evaluating a simple, spreadsheet-based pathology report extraction system for cancer registrars.

Ya Fen Liang; Pei Yi Chu; Cheng Shyong Chang; Chen Hsi Wang; Polun Chang

Developing and evaluating a simple, spreadsheet-based pathology report extraction system for cancer registrars.

Ya Fen Liang^*, Pei Yi Chu, Cheng Shyong Chang, Chen Hsi Wang, Polun Chang

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Biomedical Informatics

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Surgical pathology reports are essential for cancer registry. However, cancer registrars in Taiwan still code manually from the pathology reports written in unstructured free-text. The purpose of this study was to develop a cost-effective tool to automatically code the free-text reports with Microsoft-û Excel VBA too. The time and accuracy performances between these two approaches were compared. Results showed that the cost-effectiveness and time-saving of the system and the potentials of using spreadsheet tools for healthcare professionals.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1008
Number of pages	1
Journal	AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings / AMIA Symposium. AMIA Symposium
State	Published - Feb 2006

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