Supporting Literature

References

Published works that support and inform the standards developed by ITFSVCR.

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Christopher MM, Hotz CS. Cytologic diagnosis: expression of probability by clinical pathologists. Vet Clin Pathol. 2004;33(2):84–95. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-165x.2004.tb00354.x

2

Christopher MM, Hotz CS, Shelley SM, Pion PD. Interpretation by Clinicians of Probability Expressions in Cytology Reports and Effect on Clinical Decision-Making. JVIM. 2010;24(3):496–503. doi: 10.1111/j.1939-1676.2010.0492.x

3

Cooley C, Langlois P. Words of Estimative Probability, A Threat Intelligence Reference. Center for Cyber Intelligence. 2020 Version 1.0, August 2020.

Words of Estimative Probability by Center for Cyber Intelligence is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

4

Giglia G, Porcellato I, Lo Giudice A, Brachelente C, Lepri E, Leonardi L, Mechelli L, Sforna M, Meuten D, Mandara MT. Modifying phrases in veterinary pathology diagnostic reports: The veterinarian professionals' perception on the diagnostic confidence. Vet Pathol. 2025;62(6):963–971. doi: 10.1177/03009858251334346

5

Mirham L, Hanna J, Yousef GM. Addressing the Diagnostic Miscommunication in Pathology. Old Challenges and Innovative Solutions. Am J Clin Pathol. 2021;156:521–528. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/aqab014

6

Powsner SM, Costa J, Homer RJ. Clinicians are from Mars and Pathologists are from Venus. Clinical Interpretation of Pathology Reports. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2000;124:1040–1046.

July 2000.

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Rishniw M, Freeman KP. Clinical pathologists should limit modifier terms used to denote probability of a diagnosis: A survey-based study. J Amer Vet Med Assoc. 2023. doi: 10.2460/javma.22.11.0488

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Rishniw M, Freeman KP. Preferences of clinical pathologists for probability-modifying terms describing cytologic evaluations: A survey study. Vet Clin Pathol. 2024;53(Suppl 1):60–64. doi: 10.1111/vcp.13284

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Rishniw M, Freeman KP. Veterinary clinicians prefer template-style reports with personal confidence estimates for cytologic sample evaluations. J Amer Vet Med Assoc. 2024;262(4):513–519.

10

Sundling KE, Kurtycz DFI. Standardized terminology systems in cytopathology. Diagnostic Cytopathology. 2019;47:53–63.

This list is regularly updated as new supporting literature is published. All ITFSVCR documents are based on critical review of the primary literature interfaced with author expertise and experience.