Dr. Richard Cartun in Hartford CT asks: >>For those of you working in a hospital pathology laboratory, do you have a >>policy requiring review of outside pathology slides from patients diagnosed >>with cancer before that patient has surgery, chemotherapy, or radiation >>therapy at your institution? If so, is it a hospital or departmental >>policy?<<
Academic institutions do this, but I have never seen this done in private hospitals (maybe 50 of them), most of which do not even have a procedure for accessioning and reporting outside slides. I think such review should be a regulatory requirement, though it would be a burdensome one. At the very least, surgical pathology reports should be reviewed, particularly since the surgeon's office usually has them and can fax them. - I've seen too many errors made because this review wasn't done. - Recent advances in telepathology should make such review a lot more practical. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
