"Clinicians Are From Mars and Pathologists Are From Venus" Revisited

Synoptic Reports Improve Clinician Comprehension of Pathology Reports in Inflammatory Bowel Disease From the Divisions of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in Internal Medicine (Yan, Mao) and Bioinformatics (Yang), and the Department of Pathology (Schaberg), Davis School of Medicine, University of California, Sacramento. Kurt B. Schaberg, MD, Department of Pathology, Davis School of Medicine, University of California, 4400 V Street, Pathology Building, Sacramento, CA 95817 (email: kbschaberg@ucdavis.edu). [...]it informs the treating physician as to the patient's disease state and indirectly guides their management. MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective study performed at 2 centers-an academic tertiary care referral center (UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California) and a Veterans Affairs hospital (VA Mather in Rancho Cordova, California).