Transfer data. A proposed international standard for interlaboratory information exchange.
Clinical laboratory information is composed of descriptive terms and corresponding codes that define patients, specimens, and tests. These basic units of information, or data elements, assume literal character content and sequences in clinical laboratory computer files and messages. The growing international use of computers for scientific data transfer highlights the need for standardized coding conventions that eliminate the ambiguities of language and scientific terminology. An international symposium of the Commission on World Standards of the World Association of Societies of Pathology recommends that international consensus standards be developed to insure the accurate transfer of scientific data between clinical laboratory computers while maintaining strict subject confidentiality. It is anticipated that such standards would be widely applicable to the storage and retrieval of medical information in computers throughout the world.
D003201:Computers / Q000592:standards*; D007256:Information Systems / Q000592:standards*; D007391:International Cooperation; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D011786:Quality Control