title: XML syntax for clinical laboratory procedure manuals.
abstract: We have developed a document type description (DTD) in Extensable Markup Language (XML) for clinical laboratory procedures. Our XML syntax can adequately structure a variety of procedure types across different laboratories and is compatible with current procedure standards. The combination of this format with an XML content management system and appropriate style sheets will allow efficient procedure maintenance, distributed access, customized display and effective searching across a large body of test information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Center for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA.
authors.forename: Gilan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Saadawi
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Harrison
mesh_terms: D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D011381:Programming Languages