"Specimen Handling" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Procedures for collecting, preserving, and transporting of specimens sufficiently stable to provide accurate and precise results suitable for clinical interpretation.
| Descriptor ID |
D013048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.370.225.998 E05.200.998
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| Concept/Terms |
Specimen Handling- Specimen Handling
- Handling, Specimen
- Handlings, Specimen
- Specimen Handlings
Specimen Collection- Specimen Collection
- Collection, Specimen
- Collections, Specimen
- Specimen Collections
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
| 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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Vaginal-perianal or vaginal-perineal compared with vaginal-rectal culture-based screening for Group B Streptococci (GBS) colonization during the third trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2022 Mar 14; 22(1):204.
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Isolating and cryopreserving pig skin cells for single-cell RNA sequencing study. PLoS One. 2022; 17(2):e0263869.
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Assessing Perceptions of Broad Consent Concerning Biological Specimen Collection in a Cohort of Young Sexual Minority Men. Arch Sex Behav. 2021 10; 50(7):3313-3321.
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Cystoscopy and Systematic Bladder Tissue Sampling in Predicting pT0 Bladder Cancer: A Prospective Trial. J Urol. 2021 06; 205(6):1605-1611.
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Workflow Mapping-A Q-Probes Study of Preanalytic Testing Processes: A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 35 Clinical Laboratories. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2020 12 01; 144(12):1517-1524.
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Biobanking for necrotizing enterocolitis: Needs and standards. J Pediatr Surg. 2020 Jul; 55(7):1276-1279.
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A Targeted, Differential Top-Down Proteomic Methodology for Comparison of ApoA-I Proteoforms in Individuals with High and Low HDL Efflux Capacity. J Proteome Res. 2018 06 01; 17(6):2156-2164.
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Correlation of clinical data with fallopian tube specimen immune cells and tissue culture capacity. Tissue Cell. 2018 Jun; 52:57-64.
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Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry: protocol standardization and database expansion for rapid identification of clinically important molds. Future Microbiol. 2017 12; 12:1457-1466.
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Delta Check Practices and Outcomes: A Q-Probes Study Involving 49 Health Care Facilities and 6541 Delta Check Alerts. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2017 Jun; 141(6):813-823.