Error Reduction and Prevention in Surgical Pathology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nakhleh, Raouf E. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Laboratory medicine.; Oncology.; Pathology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Laboratory Medicine.

This text focuses on errors in the tissue diagnosis of surgical pathology, how they happen, the best systems to detect these errors, and the best systems to prevent them. As with any form of testing, the test cycle in surgical pathology can be divided into pre-analytic (collection and handling of sp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Landscape of Error in Surgical Pathology
• General Principles of How Errors Occur and How They May Be Reduced
• Error Reduction in the Pre-analytical Process
• Application of Lean Principles to Pre-Analytic and Analytic Processes
• Clinical History and Clinical Correlation
• Knowledge, Training, and Experience
• Standardization of Diagnostic Terminology and Criteria: A Prelude for Error Reduction
• Ancillary Studies: Contribution to Error and Error Prevention
• Optimization of Case Reviews in Different Practice Settings
• The Complete Surgical Pathology Report
• Communicating Effectively in Surgical Pathology
• Error Prevention in Transcription and Report Distribution.