BookDonna E. Hansel, MD, PhD, Scott D. Jewell, PhD, editors.
Summary: "Developing and Organizing an Institutional Biospecimen Repository provides useful information on establishing and maintaining a biospecimen repository and discusses issues critical to specimen collection, processing, storage, and distribution. Contents include defining the role of the biospecimen repository, developing an institutional resource within the pathology department, management and key personnel, infrastructure of the biorepository and associated core laboratories, flow of biospecimens, quality control, informatics, informed consent, cost assessment, and relationships with outside institutions and industry."-- Provided by publisher.