© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Raouf E. Nakhleh (ed.)Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology10.1007/978-1-4939-2339-7_1 1. Introduction Raouf E. Nakhleh1 (1) Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic Florida, 4500 San Pablo Rd., Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA…
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015Raouf E. Nakhleh (ed.)Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology10.1007/978-1-4939-2339-7_4 4. Error Reduction in the Preanalytical Process Richard W. Brown1 (1) System Laboratory Services, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, 7600…
Necessary features Demonstration Ease of use Ease of use in all settings, not just tertiary centers; the process should be simple Reproducibility Sufficient studies demonstrating good diagnostic agreement with moderate…
Pitfalls of clinical information in surgical pathology Potential consequences of inadequate clinical information and correlation • Ambiguous abbreviations • Inappropriate treatment or management • Clinical working diagnosis relayed as definitively…
