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Table 3.

Completeness of the colorectal carcinoma pathology report per individual parameter

Article		Beattie [26]		Buchwald [29]		Cross [31]		Idowu [36]		Ihnat^b [37]		Porter [43]		Rigby [46]		Siriwardana [21]		Woods^b [51]		Chan [18]			Casati [30]		Haugland [34]			Messenger [42]
Level SR		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 3		Level 4			Level 5		Level 5			Level 6
Guideline		RCP		Own		RCP		CAP		CAP		Own		RCP		RCP		RCP		CAP			RCP		RCP			CAP
Localisation		CRC		CRC		CRC		CRC		CRC		Rectum		CRC		CRC		CRC		CRC			CRC		CRC			Rectum
Reporting format		NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	NR	SR	SR3	NR	SR	NR	SR4	SR5	NR	SR
Number of reports		85	86	97	205	43	68	414	665	84	93	177	20	54	44	82	68	549	404	108	116	113	123	1089	368	112	170	183	315
Individual parameter (%)
Tumour size														100	100	88	100*			100	100	100						98.8	99.4
Tumour type						100	100					98.9	100	100	100	100	100			100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	98.9	99.4
Histological grade		86	100*			100	100	76.8	96*	100	100	94.4	100	100	100	98	100			98	100	100	98.4	99.9	96.7	100	99.4	91.8	97.5
Resection margins						54	100*	41.5	84*	100	100					91	100*			50	99*	100	80.5	99.7*	84	90.2	97.1*
CRM		79	95	74	100*	86	100*			0	93.3*	24.3	85*	70.4	93.2*	45	90*			14	64*	78	75	100*	73.3	94.9	95.5*	86.3	97.4*
Invasion
	Vascular	68	100*	52	98*	88	100*			44	76.3			98.2	97.7	80	100*	30.6	40.3	18	88*	100						41	96.8*
	Perineural			52	98*					23.8	52.7									7	88*	100						13.7	94.0*
	Lymphovascular											55.9	90*							81	97*	100						39.3	98.1*
Stage^a		39	100*			100	100			100	100	14.1	80*	98.2	100	77	100*						58.2	100*				24	96.2*
Depth invasion						100	100													100	100	100	100	100	96.7	100	100
Ln status																85	99*	60.5	82.4*	100	100	100						99.8	100
Total LN												91	100										98.4	99.9	97.6	99.1	100
LN with metastasis												91	100										99.2	99.7	97.6	99.1	100

RCP Royal College of Pathologists, CAP College of American Pathologists, CRC colorectal carcinoma, NR narrative report, SR synoptic report, SR3 synoptic reporting 15 months after implementation, SR4 local synoptic report, SR5 national synoptic report, CRM circumferential margin (only on rectum tumours)

*Significant improvement in completeness according to the article

^aTNM, but in Beattie [26] and Cross [31], Dukes was used

^bColon and rectum are merged