Any cytology PT program should also be considered in the context of other laboratory quality
assurance tools and the entire cervical cancer screening program. Regulatory agencies …

Regulatory agencies will be placing greater reliance on the results of proficiency testing (PT)
for determining licensing status of individual laboratories. This has caused a renewed …

The reporting rate for high‐grade squamous intraepithelial lesion or worse is used as a
performance measure by the College of American Pathologists to assess the performance of …

A very small fraction of cytopathology practitioners are not competent to interpret cytologic
findings, and regulatory PT of the interpretive function should have high priority. This can be …

A comment on this article appears in" Proficiency testing accuracy and personnel
qualifications: where is the rest of the data?" Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1993 Jul; 117 (7): 678-9 …

The role of education and training for cytopathologists in assuring quality in cytology
laboratories is discussed, with particular attention given to (1) the problems in the diagnosis …

The American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) offers numerous educational and
quality assurance programs in cytopathology. These programs include cytology workshops …

The author reported that cytotechnologists and pathologists should not be held accountable
for the local outcome consequences of global process shortcomings. Even if all identifiable …

The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 were passed into law on
October 31, 1988; regulations implementing this law have had a dramatic impact on the …

Study design To compare performance, a sample of 111 individuals (pathologists= 52,
cytotechnologists= 59) from participating in-state laboratories were administered 2 …