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Saturday, March 7, 2009 — 7:00 PM, Convention Center 304
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- Where Small Biopsies Go Wrong - Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned: Pathway to Patient Safety
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Moderator:
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Martha B. Pitman, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
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Disclosure:
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In accordance with ACCME guidelines regarding disclosure, the USCAP policy requires that faculty members who have a significant financial or other relationship with a commercial company, entity, or service (which will be discussed in this Symposium) must disclose this to attendees. The Academy also requires that speakers disclose any products that are not labeled for the use under discussion. Stephen Raab receives grant/research support
from Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The other speakers listed below have indicated they have nothing to disclose.
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| 7:00 | Introduction - Martha B. Pitman, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 7:15 | Pitfalls in the Biopsy Diagnosis of Select Head and Neck Lesions - Bruce Wenig, Beth Israel Medical Center, and St. Luke's and Roosevelt Hospitals, New York, NY |
| 7:45 | The Usefulness and Limitations of FNA and Core Biopsy in the Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Tumors - Scott Kilpatrick, Pathologists Diagnostic Services, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 8:15 | Breast Lesion Diagnosis with FNA and Core Biopsy: Challenges and Opportunities - Andrea Dawson, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH |
| 8:45 | The Future of Quality Improvement in Small Biopsy and Cytopathology Tissues - Stephen Raab, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO |
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Improving patient safety is of high interest and is currently cited as an important topic in cytopathology and small tissue biopsy surgical pathology. The PSC membership is focused on the dissemination of best practices to reduce sampling and interpretation error and improve quality of diagnoses. Our needs assessment process was based on the evaluation of the current literature and the 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Institute report that documented the important topics for evaluation and study in the field of laboratory medicine. The purpose and objectives of the program are as follows: 1) Provide examples of “real-practice” errors in diagnoses 2) highlight root cause of these errors 3) Describe the role of the pathologist in eliminating or reducing the frequency of these errors 4) Discuss known “best-practices” and means of implementation 5) Provide a framework for process change and technology in addressing improvement.
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