I am a little confused about your batch control explanation. Do you mean to put a piece of control tissue on every case slide?
Tasha Campbell, B.S.,HTL(ASCP) Frederick Gastroenterology Associates 310 W. 9th St. Frederick, MD 21701 301-695-6800 ext. 144 ________________________________ From: WILLIAM DESALVO [mailto:wdesalvo....@outlook.com] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 1:20 PM To: Campbell, Tasha M.; histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: Re: [Histonet] Paperwork I have a few suggestions: Batch control - you do need to continue documentation of which cases/slides corresponds to the one control and be able to provide for inspection or re-review of a case. I suggest you consider taking pre-cut slide, add a new cut control section (1 per case if there are multiple slides) before staining. This conserves control tissue and removes some of the logistics of locating and matching batch control. I believe this will be a quality improvement without high cost. Accessioning/ LIS - Ditch the log sheets and do not print, unless there is a specific need. All of your manual tracking process is now electronic. Do update all SOP's and note date of change in process. William William DeSalvo ________________________________ From: Campbell, Tasha M. via Histonet <histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 8:41 AM To: histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu Subject: [Histonet] Paperwork Hi everyone, I have 2 questions: 1. Could someone please share some ways to keep track of the control that goes with the slides that it was used for? So I am a small GI lab and there is a pathologist here a couple days a week. We do trichrome on Microscopic colitis cases and so I have been batching the trichromes because it's a long stain to do by hand and it's a lot easier to do it that way. But my slides are automatically printed for me and they have the date on them that the specimen was entered into the system. I cut the slide but then hold it until I am ready to do the stain. I put a date on the trichrome control slide but it of course does not match the date on the patient slides because they have been held for a few days. Is this something I even need to worry about? So far I have just been writing down the date that I stain the patient slide on a log sheet but I am trying to minimize the amount of paperwork/manual logging. 1. We recently got a accessioning system and I can now pull the number of blocks and stains done each day. Do I need to still keep writing down in my log sheet the number of blocks and stains? Do I need to print out the report that has the numbers and file it or since I have the ability to pull it from the system, I don't need to have physical logs. I am just trying to minimize as much manual logging and paperwork as possible! Thanks in Advance!!! Tasha Campbell, B.S.,HTL(ASCP) Frederick Gastroenterology Associates 310 W. 9th St. Frederick, MD 21701 301-695-6800 ext. 144 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu https://nam03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flists.utsouthwestern.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fhistonet&data=02%7C01%7C%7C50f4f767808d48b6bc9708d5f3d75d0b%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636683028652780421&sdata=X1fvAOeKBub4UgTjZcdLcjwC7TiZ9xN5Ic7zDifXcjY%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
