Extraneous tissue: A potential source for diagnostic error in surgical pathology

American Journal of Clinical Pathology

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 767-772

  Layfield, Lester J ^a   Witt, Benjamin L ^a   Metzger, Kenneth G ^b   Anderson, Gina M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ARUP LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Extraneous tissue; Floater; Laboratory error

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TISSUE SECTION; TISSUE TYPES;

ARTIFACTS; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; HUMANS; PATHOLOGY, SURGICAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 80355129924     PISSN: 00029173     EISSN: 19437722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1309/AJCP4FFSBPHAU8IU     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Howanitz PJ. Quality assurance measurements in departments of pathology and laboratory medicine. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1990;114:1131-1135. (Pubitemid 20365591)
2. Gephardt GN, Zarbo RJ. Extraneous tissue in surgical pathology: a College of American Pathologists Q-Probes study of 275 laboratories. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1996;120:1009-1014. (Pubitemid 26382874)
3. Ritter JH, Sutton TD, Wick MR. Use of immunostains to ABH blood group antigens to resolve problems in identity of tissue specimens. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1994;118:293-297. (Pubitemid 24093658)
4. Shibata D. Identification of mismatched fixed specimens with a commercially available kit based on the polymerase chain reaction. Am J Clin Pathol. 1993;100:666-670. (Pubitemid 24004124)
5. Platt E, Sommer P, McDonald L, et al. Tissue floaters and contaminants in the histology laboratory. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2009;133:973-978.
6. Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MS, eds. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2000.
7. Hunt JL. Identifying cross contaminants and specimen mix-ups in surgical pathology. Adv Anat Pathol. 2008;15:211-217.
8. Grzybicki DM, Raab SS, Janosky JE, et al. Anatomic pathology and patient safety: it's not an error: it's a diagnostic misadventure [letter]! Am J Clin Pathol. 2008;129:167-168.
9. Zarbo RJ, Meier FA, Raab SS. Error detection in anatomic pathology. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2005;129:1237-1245. (Pubitemid 41407428)
10. Roy JE, Hunt JL. Detection and classification of diagnostic discrepancies (errors) in surgical pathology. Adv Anat Pathol. 2010;17:359-365.
11. Layfield LJ, Anderson GM. Specimen labeling errors in surgical pathology: an 18-month experience. Am J Clin Pathol. 2010;134:466-470.