It's a little tricky and usually brings in CLIA's definition of high complexity
testing personnel and then the nuanced definition of testing. As strange as it
seems, most of what we do in histology is not actually testing until a
pathologist reads it out and reviews it.
The way I read it, the
You've likely been sending MMR out regularly for some time now. Look at your
send out logs to find cases that you have known results for and validate
against those. In our case, lost expression was rare enough on some of the
markers that we had to write an exception and do less than the full
We find that the amount of time slides spend baking in the oven prior to
deparaffinization on our Benchmark Ultras tends to make a difference. Harder
tissue like brain and bone can even benefit from 2 hours at 58*C.
Andrew Dilts HTL(ASCP)
Histo Supervisor, Laboratory Services
Phone: (417)
