Digital Pathology During the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy: Survey Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transition to digital pathology usually takes months or years to be completed. We were familiarizing ourselves with digital pathology solutions at the time when the COVID-19 outbreak forced us to embark on an abrupt transition to digital pathology.

Objective

The aim of this study was to quantitatively describe how the abrupt transition to digital pathology might affect the quality of diagnoses, model possible causes by probabilistic modeling, and qualitatively gauge the perception of this abrupt transition.

Methods

A total of 17 pathologists and residents participated in this study; these participants reviewed 25 additional test cases from the archives and completed a final psychologic survey. For each case, participants performed several different diagnost

SUBMITTER: Giaretto S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7901595 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature