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The effect of using templates on the information included in histology reports on specimens of uterine cervix taken by loop excision of transformation zone (LETZ)
1 Department of Pathology, 5th Floor, Duncan Building, The Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Prescot Street, Liverpool L7 8XP, UK
I should again like to congratulate Dr Al-Nafussi and her colleagues for providing us with an interesting and stimulating paper1 and to take the opportunity to add some comments of my own. Following earlier correspondence in the journal,2,3 I have sought to develop a system of standardised phrases that are used in reporting the features listed in the paper by Reid et al.1 Secretarial or medical staff can enter a short code of up to 35 letters, which is expanded electronically to produce a phrase or sentence in coherent English. In this department, we use the Telepath system, which allows more than one such code to be used in any given report. Snomed codes are linked to the codes and automatically included in the departmental database. Furthermore, it is possible to recover reports in which a given standardised phrase or sentence has been used. This allows us to identify
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