Profile of usage of a reference diagnostic service on oral pathology: a 10-year evaluation

Table 1 Exams, requestors, diagnosis, and immunohistochemical tests performed in the laboratory from 2002 to 2012

*Year*	*Requestors of the exams*								*Total*		*Diagnoses classification*						*Immunohistochemical tests*
	*Public Health system of the city of Belo Horizonte*		*Private*		*Public Health system of other cities*		*Indeterminate*		*Total*		*Benign*		*Malignant*		*Indeterminate*		*Immunohistochemical tests*
	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%	n	%*	%**
2002	1,161	77.71	253	16.93	22	1.47	58	3.88	1,494	11.05	1,426	95.45	67	4.48	1	0.07	1	0.21	0.07
2003	980	79.22	107	8.65	97	7.84	53	4.28	1,237	9.15	1,167	94.34	64	5.17	6	0.49	28	5.97	2.26
2004	983	83.16	145	12.27	39	3.30	15	1.27	1,182	8.74	1,118	94.59	62	5.25	2	0.17	59	12.58	4.99
2005	1,025	83.40	165	13.43	9	0.73	30	2.44	1,229	9.09	1,158	94.22	71	5.78	0	0.00	28	5.97	2.28
2006	1,020	84.23	169	13.96	2	0.17	20	1.65	1,211	8.96	1,134	93.64	67	5.53	10	0.83	21	4.48	1.73
2007	854	86.61	118	11.97	3	0.30	11	1.12	986	7.29	894	90.67	68	6.90	24	2.43	44	9.38	4.46
2008	1,030	81.68	228	18.08	1	0.08	2	0.16	1,261	9.33	1,168	92.62	87	6.90	6	0.48	15	3.20	1.19
2009	925	71.32	339	26.14	18	1.39	15	1.16	1,297	9.59	1,232	94.99	65	5.01	0	0.00	75	15.99	5.78
2010	958	66.07	455	31.38	34	2.34	3	0.21	1,450	10.72	1,327	91.52	121	8.34	2	0.14	62	13.22	4.28
2011	809	70.47	318	27.70	20	1.74	1	0.09	1,148	8.49	1,058	92.16	87	7.58	3	0.26	68	14.50	5.92
2012	685	66.70	307	29.89	30	2.92	5	0.49	1,027	7.60	917	89.29	95	9.25	15	1.46	68	14.50	6.62
Total	10,430	77.13	2,604	19.26	275	2.03	213	1.58	13,522	100.00	12,599	93.17	854	6.32	69	0.51	469	100.00	3.47

%* = percentage of immunohistochemical tests per total of immunohistochemical tests performed over 10 years.
%** = percentage of immunohistochemical tests per total of exams performed in the same year.

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