"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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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in this website by year, and whether "Specimen Handling" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1995 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1997 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2000 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2001 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2002 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2004 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2005 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
| 2006 | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 2007 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2008 | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 2009 | 2 | 5 | 7 |
| 2010 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2011 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
| 2012 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2013 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 2014 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 2015 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2016 | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| 2017 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2 | 10 |
| 2019 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2020 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| 2021 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| 2022 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2023 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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Culturally Competent Education and Human Papillomavirus Self-Sampling Achieves Healthy People 2030 Cervical Screening Target Among Low-Income Non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic Women. JCO Glob Oncol. 2024 May; 10:e2400005.
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Adaptive Time-Location Sampling for COMPASS: A SARS-CoV-2 Prevalence Study in Fifteen Diverse Communities in the United States. Epidemiology. 2024 May 01; 35(3):389-397.
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Quantitative Assessment of Preanalytic Variables on Clinical Evaluation of PI3/AKT/mTOR Signaling Activity in Diffuse Glioma. Mod Pathol. 2024 Jun; 37(6):100488.
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Pre-analytical effects on whole transcriptome and targeted RNA sequencing analysis in cytology: The effects of prolonged time in storage of effusion specimens prior to preservation. Cytopathology. 2023 Nov; 34(6):551-561.
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The impact of body mass index and physical disability on home-based anal self-sampling. Cancer Causes Control. 2024 Jan; 35(1):161-166.
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Breast Implant-Associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: Updates in Diagnosis and Specimen Handling. Surg Pathol Clin. 2023 Jun; 16(2):347-360.
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Expandable Sendai-Virus-Reprogrammed Human iPSC-Neuronal Precursors: In Vivo Post-Grafting Safety Characterization in Rats and Adult Pig. Cell Transplant. 2023 Jan-Dec; 32:9636897221107009.
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Cotton Balls for Urine Sample Collection-Is Negative Bias Truly Negative? J Pediatr. 2023 04; 255:259.
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De novo identification of microbial contaminants in low microbial biomass microbiomes with Squeegee. Nat Commun. 2022 11 10; 13(1):6799.
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Detection and Stability of SARS-CoV-2 in Three Self-Collected Specimen Types: Flocked Midturbinate Swab (MTS) in Viral Transport Media, Foam MTS, and Saliva. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 06 29; 10(3):e0103322.