在过去的10年中,在加拿大临床应用中使用心灵感应病理学逐渐变得更具吸引力。在很大程度上受到其在全国范围内提供快速病理咨询服务的潜力的驱动,无论特定机构的位置如何。基于这一趋势,加拿大病理学家协会主席要求一个由病理学家组成的工作组,技术人员,和来自加拿大各地的医疗保健管理员监督指南的制定,为加拿大病理学家提供如何实施和使用这项技术的基本信息。该指南是系统地制定的,基于现有的医学文献和加拿大心传病理学早期采用者的临床经验。虽然心传病理学有许多不同的模式和应用,本文件特别关注应用于术中病理会诊(冰冻切片)的全载玻片成像,初步诊断,专家或第二意见和质量保证活动。应用,如血液病理学,微生物学,肿瘤板,教育,研究和技术和/或标准相关的问题不包括在内。
The use of
telepathology for clinical applications in Canada has steadily become more attractive over the last 10 years, driven largely by its potential to provide rapid pathology consulting services throughout the country regardless of the location of a particular institution. Based on this trend, the president of the Canadian Association of Pathologists asked a working group consisting of pathologists, technologists, and healthcare administrators from across Canada to oversee the development of
guidelines to provide Canadian pathologists with basic information on how to implement and use this technology. The
guidelines were systematically developed, based on available medical literature and the clinical experience of early adopters of
telepathology in Canada. While there are many different modalities and applications of
telepathology, this document focuses specifically on whole-slide imaging as applied to intraoperative pathology consultation (frozen section), primary diagnosis, expert or second opinions and quality assurance activities. Applications such as hematopathology, microbiology, tumour boards, education, research and technical and/or standard-related issues are not covered.