CORI Publishes Over 1,000 Images of Endoscopic
Outcomes on OHSU’s Digital Resources Library
PORTLAND, OR – March 4, 2005 – The Clinical
Outcomes Research Initiative (CORI) has published its first
set of images of endoscopic outcomes on the Oregon Health & Science
University Digital Resources Library. The initial set of
1,093 actual findings includes images of Barrett’s
Esophagus, upper GI nodules and polyps, and upper gastrointestinal
tumors and ulcers, along with the reporting endoscopists evaluation.
CORI has made these images freely available to use for non-profit
educational purposes.
The CORI collection can be found at:
Judy Logan, M.D., Assistant Professor of the Department
of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology, piloted
this project on the foundation that the images will be used
as a guideline in training and educational practices. “The
technology provided by the OHSU Digital Resources Library
allows us to catalog and easily retrieve a multitude of images
based on finding and other descriptive keywords,” says
Dr. Logan, “We hope to include links to these findings
in future CORI technology as an added value to our participating
endoscopists.”
Over the next year, CORI will publish three more sets of
findings. These images and descriptive evaluations come
directly from the National Endoscopic Database (NED) and
have been reviewed by OHSU fellows under the direction
of CORI’s Executive Co-Director, Glenn Eisen, M.D.
About the OHSU Digital Resources Library
The Oregon Health & Science University Digital Resources
Library is a collection of multimedia digital objects (still
images, sound and video) focusing on health sciences, engineering,
and biomedical research. Faculty, staff, and students of
Oregon Health & Science University may use this digital
library for nonprofit, educational purposes, such as teaching,
staff training, and conference presentations.
About the Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative
The Clinical Outcomes Research Initiative (CORI) was founded
in 1995 by the ASGE as a national data repository for endoscopic
research. The shared repository is designed to promote endoscopic
research among GI physicians. CORI is a leading source of
GI research information, receiving more than 20,000 clinical
procedure reports from more than 750 physicians nationwide
each month. CORI research data have been used to support
more than 50 major research initiatives to date. CORI operates
as a not-for-profit subsidiary of the ASGE. For more information,
visit CORI’s web site: http://www.cori.org
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