PSL extracts, transforms, and loads Free Text and Coded Pathology Data into a de-identified format which can be searched across multiple hospitals.
PSL requires the following open.med modules:
With the specimen data is loaded, an investigator may SEARCH THE PATHOLOGY ARCHIVES to find and request human tissue samples.
For a complete description of this process, please see the papers by McMurry and Drake.
Below is a summary "picture" that show 4 hospitals getting "loaded up" with specimen data and then searched with increasing level of access as necessary.
IRB approval is required for only the limited subset of patient specimens located.
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