Improving the quality of oncologic pathology diagnosis is immensely important as the
overwhelming majority of the approximately 1.6 million patients who will be diagnosed with …

Context Additional reviews of diagnostic surgical and cytology cases have been shown to
detect diagnostic discrepancies. Objective To develop, through a systematic review of the …

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report on the scope of medical error in the
United States and on recommendations for reducing medical error and improving patient …

Purpose: Morphological classifications designed by experts to stratify neoplasms according
to biological potential must define categories that are reproducible among practitioners or …

Objectives Second-opinion pathology review identifies clinically significant diagnostic
discrepancies for some patients. Discrepancy rates and laboratory-specific costs in a single …

Ethical and legal implications arise both when seeking a second medical opinion and when
providing one. There has been debate as to whether a second opinion for a patient is a right …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the utility of second opinion pathology
in patients who are seen in consultation for urologic malignancy. METHODS: We …

Approximately 70%-80% of urothelial carcinomas are detected at the stage of non–muscle-
invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Initial management is often successful, but recurrence is …

Interinstitutional consultation in pathology has shown to improve patient safety by detecting
interpretive errors that may significantly impact clinical management. We conducted a study …

BACKGROUND: The importance of interinstitutional consultation (IC) has been documented
across a variety of surgical pathology organ systems. However, to the authors' knowledge …