I have followed up with my former employer (hospital) and they have a policy which the medical director was kind enough to send me a copy. The policy requires that any cancer patient to be treated at this hospital where the cancer diagnosis was not made by their own hospital pathologists - the clinician treating the patient must request the slides from the outside institution(s) where the cancer diagnosis was originally made to be reviewed by the hospital pathologist(s) before treatment is initiated at the hospital.
Godfrey > Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:19:07 -0400 > From: rsrichm...@gmail.com > To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu > Subject: [Histonet] Re: Review of outside Path > > 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 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1_______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
