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Effect of Lean method implementation in the histopathology section of an anatomical pathology laboratoryS S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
J Clin Pathol 61:1193-9. 2008..The effectiveness of large-scale quality improvement initiatives has been evaluated rarely...
Measuring quality in anatomic pathologyStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Clin Lab Med 28:245-59, vi. 2008....- National practice characteristics and utilization of pathologists' assistantsD M Grzybicki
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 125:905-12. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, this national survey provides the first description of pathologists' assistants across the United States. These data provide a useful tool for tracking changes in the profession... - Fine-needle aspiration for the diagnosis of primary epithelial tumors of the lacrimal gland and ocular adnexaC D Sturgis
Department of Pathology, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 4772, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 24:86-9. 2001..Our experience indicates that FNA is a reliable and effective tool in the diagnosis and management of primary lacrimal and ocular adnexal tumors... - Clinical perception of disease probability associated with Bethesda System diagnosesS S Raab
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 E North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 115:681-8. 2001..OGYNs generally were more accurate in probability estimates than PCPs. Methods to convey more accurately these diagnostic disease probabilities should be examined... - The utility of histological examination of tissue removed during elective joint replacement. A preliminary assessmentS S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242 1009, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 80:331-5. 1998..24. Although there would be considerable cost-savings on a population basis if histological examination were not performed, this savings must be weighed against the effect of a misdiagnosis on the management of a particular patient... - Pathologists' assistants practice: a measurement of performanceC O Galvis
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 116:816-22. 2001..These results provide the first information available relating to pathologists' assistants' performance in surgical pathology... - Interobserver and intraobserver variability in the cytologic diagnosis of normal and abnormal metaplastic squamous cells in pap smearsD K Gupta
Department of Pathology, Shadyside Hospital and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Acta Cytol 45:697-703. 2001..Interobserver variability has not been measured adequately for metaplastic squamous lesions. We analyzed interobserver and intraobserver variability and diagnostic accuracy in the diagnosis of dysplastic metaplastic cells... - Microtubule-associated protein-2: a new sensitive and specific marker for pulmonary carcinoid tumor and small cell carcinomaY Liu
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212, USA
Mod Pathol 14:880-5. 2001..We recommend that MAP-2 be added to immunohistochemical panels to separate non-neuroendocrine from neuroendocrine lung tumors... - Can glandular lesions be diagnosed in pap smear cytology?S S Raab
Department of Pathology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15212 4772, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 23:127-33. 2000..Other categories of AGUS, such as AGUS favor endometrial origin, are more appropriately named and encompass endometrial lesions which are either neoplastic or non-neoplastic... - Effect of cervical disease history on outcomes of women who have a pap diagnosis of atypical glandular cells of undetermined significanceS S Raab
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Division of Clinical Effectiveness and Outcomes Research, Allegheny General Hospital, 320 East North Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212, USA
Gynecol Oncol 74:460-4. 1999.... - The cost-effectiveness of routine histologic examinationS S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 110:391-6. 1998..Before definitive policy conclusions can be made, additional studies are needed to better define the trade-off between cost and the value of information and the incidence of detecting clinically significant disease... - Patient safety in anatomic pathology: measuring discrepancy frequencies and causesStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 129:459-66. 2005..Anatomic pathology discrepancy frequencies have not been rigorously studied... - Variability of practice in anatomic pathology and its effect on patient outcomesStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
Semin Diagn Pathol 22:177-85. 2005..quot; Few of those analyses have addressed the impact of diagnostic disagreement on patient care; in addition, proposed and effective methods to reduce interpretative variability have only rarely been included... - Improving patient safety through quality assuranceStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:633-7. 2006..Anatomic pathology laboratories use several quality assurance tools to detect errors and to improve patient safety... - Identification errors involving clinical laboratories: a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of patient and specimen identification errors at 120 institutionsPaul N Valenstein
Department of Pathology, St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Mich 48106 0998, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:1106-13. 2006..Misidentified laboratory specimens may cause patient injury, but their frequency in general laboratory practice is unknown... - Effectiveness of Toyota process redesign in reducing thyroid gland fine-needle aspiration errorStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 126:585-92. 2006..001). Toyota process change led to significantly fewer diagnostic errors for patients who underwent thyroid fine-needle aspiration... - Use of a new method in reaching consensus on the cause of cytologic-histologic correlation discrepancyStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 126:836-42. 2006..Most discrepancies resulted from pathologists diagnosing noninterpretable samples. Pathologists who used the No-Blame Box showed significant agreement in the adjudication of discrepancy cause... - Patient identification error among prostate needle core biopsy specimens--are we ready for a DNA time-out?Eric J Suba
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, South San Francisco, California 94080, USA
J Urol 178:1245-8. 2007..We assessed strategies for decreasing the occurrence of these uncommon and yet potentially catastrophic events... - The effect of continuous monitoring of cytologic-histologic correlation data on cervical cancer screening performanceStephen S Raab
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Department of Pathology, 5150 Centre Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 132:16-22. 2008..The use of Papanicolaou (Pap) test cytologic-histologic correlation in quality improvement activities is not well studied... - Anatomic pathology and patient safety: it's not an error: it's a diagnostic misadventure!Dana Marie Grzybicki
Am J Clin Pathol 129:167-8; author reply 169. 2008 - Double slide viewing as a cytology quality improvement initiativeStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, and Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 125:526-33. 2006..We conclude that double viewing detects errors in up to 1 of every 37 cases and that biases in the double-viewing process limit error detection... - Discrepancy analysis, communication, and feedback for cytotechnologist quality improvement of nongynecologic cytopathologyPeggy Whigham
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian Shadyside, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Diagn Cytopathol 34:265-9. 2006..We believe our process is a fundamental step in improving CT performance in Nongynecologic cytopathology and keeps the CT informed of complexities of nongynecologic cytopathology... - Papanicolaou tests diagnosed as atypical by a cytotechnologist and downgraded to benign by a pathologist: a measure of laboratory qualityJennifer L Condel
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 117:534-40. 2002..9%) was similar to that for a downgraded ASCUS (11.0%) or AGUS (7.3%). The parameters of downgraded ASCU and AGUS Pap test interpretations are good quality indicators of individual performance and overall laboratory quality... - Factors affecting the adoption of new cytology technologiesStephen S Raab
Diagn Cytopathol 30:105-6. 2004 - Pathology and patient safety: the critical role of pathology informatics in error reduction and quality initiativesMichael J Becich
Center for Pathology Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical School, 5150 Centre Avenue, UPMC Cancer Pavilion, 3rd Floor, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Clin Lab Med 24:913-43, vi. 2004..They aim to highlight the areas where pathology informatics in all of its flavors (production systems provided by vendors as well as research and development efforts) can play a role in promoting patient safety... - Variability in cytologic-histologic correlation practices and implications for patient safetyColleen M Vrbin
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 129:893-8. 2005..5 and 8.7, respectively. CONCLUSIONS: Laboratories record data from the cytologic-histologic correlation process in a number of ways, indicating the lack of standardization of the data collection process... - Database construction for improving patient safety by examining pathology errorsDana Marie Grzybicki
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 124:500-9. 2005..Development of these electronic data abstraction capabilities is critical for efforts to improve patient safety through the examination of pathology diagnostic errors... - Error detection in anatomic pathologyRichard J Zarbo
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 129:1237-45. 2005..In particular, the value of double-reading, case conferences, and consultations (the traditional triad of error control in anatomic pathology) awaits objective assessment... - Clinical impact and frequency of anatomic pathology errors in cancer diagnosesStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232, USA
Cancer 104:2205-13. 2005..To the authors' knowledge, the frequency and clinical impact of errors in the anatomic pathology diagnosis of cancer have been poorly characterized to date... - Improving Papanicolaou test quality and reducing medical errors by using Toyota production system methodsStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 194:57-64. 2006..The objective of the study was to determine whether the Toyota production system process improves Papanicolaou test quality and patient safety... - Improving the quality of cytology diagnosis: root cause analysis for errors in bronchial washing and brushing specimensLaurentia Nodit
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA 15232, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 124:883-92. 2005..Sampling issues had a major role in the misdiagnosis in 31 cases (97%), and recommendations for error reduction include immediate interpretation and the use of transmucosal fine-needle aspiration... - The value of monitoring frozen section-permanent section correlation data over timeStephen S Raab
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, USA
Arch Pathol Lab Med 130:337-42. 2006..The effectiveness of the long-term monitoring of errors detected by frozen section-permanent section correlation is unknown... - Amended reports: development and validation of a taxonomy of defectsFrederick A Meier
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202, USA
Am J Clin Pathol 130:238-46. 2008..Conference review revealed 40% to 80% of misinterpretations. This taxonomy produced excellent reproducibility and good agreement across institutions...