Natural language processing in pathology: a scoping review.

Background: Encoded pathology data are key for medical registries and analyses, but pathology information is often expressed as free text.

Objective: We reviewed and assessed the use of NLP (natural language processing) for encoding pathology documents.

Materials And Methods: Papers addressing NLP in pathology were retrieved from PubMed, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Digital Library and Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Anthology.

Improved quality of patient care through routine second review of histopathology specimens prior to multidisciplinary meetings.

Aim: Double reading may be a valuable tool for improving quality of patient care by identifying diagnostic errors before final sign-out, but standard double reading would significantly increase costs of pathology. We assessed the added value of intradepartmental routine double reading of histopathology specimens prior to multidisciplinary meetings.

Methods: Diagnoses, treatment plans and prognoses of patients are often discussed at multidisciplinary meetings.

Attitudes towards people with physical or intellectual disabilities: nursing students and non-nursing peers.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study of the attitudes of Dutch nursing students towards people with physical or intellectual disabilities.

Background: Attitudes of healthcare professionals are a major factor in the rehabilitation and self-acceptance of persons with disabilities. Consequently, it is important that nurses develop or maintain positive attitudes towards people with disabilities during their education.