Palga Foundation

The nationwide network and registry of histo- and cytopathology in the Netherlands In the Netherlands, since 1971, a foundation called Palga has been active, which has developed a system of central archiving of all reports generated by all (55) Pathology departments (academic and non-academic) in the country. PALGA an acronym, literally translated: pathological anatomy national automated archive. a non-profit foundation, members are all Pathology departments. a system developed by pathologists. a system for pathologists and their departments. Contents national database abstracts of the pathology reports; an abstract consists of encrypted patient identification, a summary of the report diagnostic terms in line with SNOMED terminology. about 90 million abstracts of more than 14 million patients are stored. each year, more than 2 million abstracts are added. PALGA offers pathology laboratories a package for synoptic reporting. A growing number of reports in the database will th...