"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.
MeSH Number(s)
E01.370.225.998
E05.200.998
Concept/Terms
Specimen Handling- Specimen Handling
- Handling, Specimen
- Handlings, Specimen
- Specimen Handlings
Specimen Collection- Specimen Collection
- Collection, Specimen
- Collections, Specimen
- Specimen Collections
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Specimen Handling".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Specimen Handling".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Specimen Handling" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1993 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 1994 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 1995 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 1996 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 1997 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 1998 | 2 | 6 | 8 |
| 1999 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 2000 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| 2001 | 1 | 6 | 7 |
| 2002 | 1 | 7 | 8 |
| 2003 | 4 | 5 | 9 |
| 2004 | 1 | 13 | 14 |
| 2005 | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| 2006 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| 2007 | 7 | 10 | 17 |
| 2008 | 5 | 9 | 14 |
| 2009 | 10 | 8 | 18 |
| 2010 | 6 | 14 | 20 |
| 2011 | 6 | 8 | 14 |
| 2012 | 17 | 5 | 22 |
| 2013 | 9 | 6 | 15 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8 | 22 |
| 2015 | 14 | 15 | 29 |
| 2016 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| 2017 | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| 2018 | 11 | 7 | 18 |
| 2019 | 7 | 8 | 15 |
| 2020 | 16 | 20 | 36 |
| 2021 | 20 | 17 | 37 |
| 2022 | 1 | 5 | 6 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Specimen Handling" by people in Profiles.
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Protocol for the Systematic Fixation, Circuit-Based Sampling, and Qualitative and Quantitative Neuropathological Analysis of Human Brain Tissue. Methods Mol Biol. 2023; 2561:3-30.
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Prioritizing Patient Safety and Minimizing Waste: Institutional Review of Cases and a Proposed Process for Designing a Surgical Pathology Gross-Only Examination Policy. Am J Clin Pathol. 2022 11 03; 158(5):598-603.
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The Use of Freezer Paper for Thin, Fragile Specimens in Mohs Surgery. Dermatol Surg. 2022 11 01; 48(11):1254-1255.
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Self-collected versus medic-collected sampling for human papillomavirus testing among women in Lagos, Nigeria: a comparative study. BMC Public Health. 2022 10 15; 22(1):1922.
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Time-of-Day Variation in SARS-CoV-2 RNA Levels during the Second Wave of COVID-19. Viruses. 2022 08 05; 14(8).
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Diagnostic Performance Assessment of Saliva RT-PCR and Nasopharyngeal Antigen for the Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Peru. Microbiol Spectr. 2022 08 31; 10(4):e0086122.
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Stability and reproducibility of proteomic profiles in epidemiological studies: comparing the Olink and SOMAscan platforms. Proteomics. 2022 07; 22(13-14):e2100170.
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Pooling for SARS-CoV2 Surveillance: Validation and Strategy for Implementation in K-12 Schools. Front Public Health. 2021; 9:789402.
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Treatment Effect Measures for Culture Conversion Endpoints in Phase IIb Tuberculosis Treatment Trials. Clin Infect Dis. 2021 12 06; 73(11):2131-2139.
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Targeted Mass Spectrometry Enables Multiplexed Quantification of Immunomodulatory Proteins in Clinical Biospecimens. Front Immunol. 2021; 12:765898.