Medical 3D printing: methods to standardize terminology and report trends.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical 3D printing is expanding exponentially, with tremendous potential yet to be realized in nearly all facets of medicine. Unfortunately, multiple informal subdomain-specific isolated terminological 'silos' where disparate terminology is used for similar concepts are also arising as rapidly. It is imperative to formalize the foundational terminology at this early stage to facilitate future knowledge integration, collaborative research, and appropriate reimbursement. The purpose of this work is to develop objective, literature-based consensus-building methodology for the medical 3D printing domain to support expert consensus.

Results

We first quantitatively survey the temporal, conceptual, and geographic diversity of all existing published applications within m

SUBMITTER: Chepelev L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6036766 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature