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Assessment of completion of forms requesting skin biopsies
Daniel Almeida Schettini1, Antonio Pedro Mendes Schettini, José Carlos Gomes Sardinha
1Air Force Hospital, Manaus, AM, Brazil. apmschettini@gmail.com
Background:
Information contained in request forms for histopathological examinations is essential for interpreting tissue changes observed in microscopy.
Objective:
To determine the adequacy of information provided on forms requesting skin biopsies.
Method:
Assessment, in two health institutions, of 647 forms requesting skin biopsies in order to determine the completeness on the forms of the clinical details/items considered necessary for undertaking skin biopsies.
Results:
Of the total 18 items on the forms, 7 were found to relay complete information in under 10% of the forms and only 9 items were correctly completed in over 80% of the requests.
Conclusion:
We concluded that information on many of the essential items required for a correct interpretation of the anatomopathologic examination was missing from the request forms.
