Computer-output Microfilm in an Anatomie Pathology Laboratory

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Allen, Philip W., and Angus, Brian V., Computer-output microfilm in an anatomic pathology laboratory. Am. J. Clin. Pathol. 69: 537–543, 1978. Computer-output microfilming is a technic for printing on microfilm sorted data stored on magnetic tape. The names of patients accessioned in the Division of Histopathology of the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Science, Adelaide, with age, sex, laboratory accession number, systematized nomenclature of pathology (SNOP) diagnostic code numbers, and concise diagnoses written in English, are printed on computer-output microfilm microfiche. Four separate and updated microfiche files of cases accessioned over the preceding five-year period, arranged in alphabetic order of patients’ names, laboratory accession number order, SNOP morphology code number order, and SNOP topography code number order, are prepared every six months. These files allow rapid retrieval of a summarized diagnosis, and also act as directories to the complete pathology reports. Carbon copies of complete typewritten reports are manually microfilmed in laboratory accession number order on automatically-marked 16-mm roll microfilm, which is stored in cassettes. Microfilmed reports can be rapidly retrieved, projected on a screen and, when needed, printed by a roll microfilm reader/printer. The adoption of this system has resulted in a great saving of valuable laboratory space and in markedly increased laboratory efficiency.

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