Design: Customer-Supplier teams trained in Lean process redesign were established between Surgical Services and Pathology at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. to define mutual requirements, identify defects, lack of standardization, and brainstorm solutions to improve the quality of specimen hand-offs ...
Background: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding provides standardized language to describe services rendered by medical personnel. In our anatomic pathology practice CPT codes are assigned to specimens at accessioning and are later audited by pathologists and billing personnel. Accurate assignment ...
Suite 4050 New Orleans LA United States 70139-6000 View map Dr. Ward leads the Climate and Sustainability Sciences portion of the Sustainability and ESG Services team within Deloitte’s Audit & Assurance business. He joined the Audit & Assurance Sustainability and ESG Services team in November 2021...
Background: Turnaround time (TAT) is an important metric for pathology laboratories as it pushes the system to provide services in a time that is as optimal as possible for patient care. In our institution, the time of signout of complex surgical cases of malignant neoplasms historically was ...
Results: Macrovesicular fat % Impression of viability (y or n/u) Portal inflammation (0-3) Fibrosis stage (0-4) Microvesicular fat % ICC (confidence ICC of GI faculty vs intervals) all observers non-GI faculty 0.71 (.58-.83) 0.76 (0.52-0.89) ICC of GI faculty vs SP ...
University of Calgary and Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary, AB, Canada. Background: The correlation of intra-operative frozen section diagnosis with the final diagnosis on permanent sections is an integral part of quality assurance in anatomical pathology laboratories. Design: We reviewed the slides...
Design: Customer-Supplier teams trained in Lean process redesign were established between Surgical Services and Pathology at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI. to define mutual requirements, identify defects, lack of standardization, and brainstorm solutions to improve the quality of specimen hand-offs ...
Background: Turnaround time (TAT) is an important metric for pathology laboratories as it pushes the system to provide services in a time that is as optimal as possible for patient care. In our institution, the time of signout of complex surgical cases of malignant neoplasms historically was ...
Background: Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) coding provides standardized language to describe services rendered by medical personnel. In our anatomic pathology practice CPT codes are assigned to specimens at accessioning and are later audited by pathologists and billing personnel. Accurate assignment ...
Background: Evaluation of trends in utilization of laboratory services is important for quality assurance, planning and education. We undertook a temporal analysis of the utilization of pathology intraoperative consultation (IOC) services in a large academic center, to look for changing trends, if any...