From: Kim Donadio <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Histonet] Basis for Quality Work in a Histotech To: "O'Donnell, Bill" <[email protected]>, Maria Mejia <[email protected]>, "Morken, Timothy" <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Kim Donadio (where?) comments: >>I'd like to add my two cents to the measuring "Quality" topic. I'll make it >>short. - You should have a "Quality Management" program. It's vital to track >>errors, types of errors, frequency and who etc. This is NOT a tool for blame >>as we are all adults or we should be. It is however a tool for tracking >>trends, making improvements and yes if you did see someone making a mistake >>often, you would have the data to educate particular personnel. - There are >>QM tools out there from various organizations. And yes, there are standards >>of deviations such as the TAT for frozens. There are standards for other >>things as well. Set Standards of excellence with your Pathologist. Make >>goals. Track them. Follow improvement.<< I'm going to add a sour and cynical rejoinder. As most of you know, I'm an elderly pathologist who's spent the last 30 years as a locum tenens, working maybe 60 pathology services in my "career". Sometimes in a pathology practice I'll be asked to fill out daily "quality whatever" (the patter changes with the years) reports about the slides. I always dread having to do this, because I know that the more of this paperwork I have to do, the worse the slides will be. The worst was one that required several square inches of scribbling a day. They couldn't mount a coverslip correctly. Any meaningful system would require daily feedback from pathologist (or other end user) to histotechnologist. I've never encountered a pathology service that accomplished this. Dang - now I'm remembering that this morning duodenal biopsy sections were the best I'd ever seen here, and I forgot to tell the histotech before she slipped out the door! Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Maryville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
