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Quality assurance in a fine‐needle aspiration biopsy service

Author(s) -

Cohen Michael B.,

Sideli Robert V.

Publication year - 1991

Publication title -

diagnostic cytopathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417

H-Index - 65

eISSN - 1097-0339

pISSN - 8755-1039

DOI - 10.1002/dc.2840070604

Subject(s) - medicine , quality assurance , fine needle aspiration , biopsy , medical physics , aspiration biopsy , variety (cybernetics) , radiology , quality (philosophy) , service (business) , pathology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , external quality assessment , epistemology , economy , economics

Fine‐needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) is an increasingly popular tool for the evaluation of a variety of palpable and nonpalpable masses. Its acceptance has been based on its simplicity, safety, and accuracy. It is its accuracy that is crucial and that requires careful clinical and/or histologic follow‐up. In order to satisfy our own department's quality assurance requirements, we developed a computer‐based searching program that effectively identifies FNAB cases in which there was histologic follow‐up and retrieves the necessary information to produce a meaningful quality assurance report.

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