Figure 1.

Example surgical pathology report in SPIN XML format. This is an example of a simple (and fictitious) surgical pathology report, which has been converted into the SPIN XML schema and deidentified by our scrubber. The schema supports a great amount of detail, but only a few of the elements are mandatory. This example shows the minimal elements needed to have a valid XML file which the scrubber will process. The format is somewhat redundant as the textual portions of the report are included twice, once in the <GrossDescriptionText> and <DiagnosisText> elements and once in the combined <FullReportText> element. Note that the original report contained the phrase 'Received in formalin labelled "John Doe"...'. The scrubber replaced "John Doe" with "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".