Antioxidants and Their Effect on Stress-Induced Pathology in the Inner Ear
Fig. 4.1 A highly stylized auditory hair cell is drawn in this schematic. The cell is depicted to be under the stress of typical pathological triggers of noise, aging, and…
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Role of Free Radicals in Hearing Loss due to Heavy Metals
Fig. 5.1 Proposed mechanisms of oxidative stress by redox-inactive toxic metals 5.2 Lead Lead is a bluish-gray metal found naturally in the earth’s crust. Because of its versatility, lead has…
Application of Lean Principles to Preanalytic and Analytic Processes
Patient identification Patient history Specimen loss Specimen identification Specimen adequacy Specimen handling Specimen transportation Accessioning data misentry Many of the errors in the preanalytic phase occur before the specimen ever…
The Complete Surgical Pathology Report
BREAST CARCINOMA Specimen laterality: Procedure: Lymph nodes sampling (required only if lymph nodes are present): a Tumor site/location: Histologic type of Invasive carcinoma: Tumor focality (required only if more than…
General Principles of How Errors Occur and How They May Be Reduced
Fig. 3.1 The Swiss Cheese Model of error causation. Each slice of cheese represents a step in the health care process. The “holes” represent errors in each individual step, either…
The Landscape of Error in Surgical Pathology
Fig. 2.1 A twelve-step program: surgical pathology as a production process Amended Reports and practical errors: Amended reports in surgical pathology are like accident reports . As sources for a…
Error Management: Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities
53. Kapp MB. Medical error versus malpractice. DePaul J Health Care L. 1997;1:751–72. 54. Blum JD. Regulating for patient safety: the law’s response to medical errors: article: combating those ugly…
Error Prevention in Transcription and Report Distribution
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Raouf E. Nakhleh (ed.)Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology10.1007/978-1-4939-2339-7_13 13. Error Prevention in Transcription and Report Distribution Shannon J. McCall1 (1) Department of Pathology, Duke University, 327C Davison…
Communicating Effectively in Surgical Pathology
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Raouf E. Nakhleh (ed.)Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology10.1007/978-1-4939-2339-7_12 12. Communicating Effectively in Surgical Pathology Carolyn Mies1 (1) Division of Anatomic Pathology, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,…
Optimization of Case Reviews in Different Practice Settings
Review type Explanation of process Targeted Review of specific types of cases either by diagnosis or by organ system Random Review of cases using a previously outline method of selecting…
