[Information retrieval system of the pathoanatomical department]

An information search system (ISS) of pathological archive was developed and introduced into practice in the Department of Pathomorphology of the N. V. Sklifosovsky Research Institute of Emergency. A bank of data for 1977-1979 consisting of 8400 perforated cards corresponding to 4200 autopsies has been accumulated. A computer-oriented card has been developed for recording of preadmission, clinical, and anatomical diagnosis. Treatment of the materials in a ES-1020-1022 computer permitted to reduce the labour consumption in the analysis of clinico-anatomic diagnoses, to improve the quality of documentation, and to create the bank of data based on the archives of the Pathomorphology Department. To increase the volume and value of the input information dictionaries-codifiers of various operative interventions, kinds of anesthesia, histological types of neoplasias, etc. have been created in addition to the "International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Traumas, and Causes of Death". The results obtained with the employment of the "Archive" ISS open broad prospects for creation of an automatized system of pathological archives.