Dana Marie Grzybicki, MD, PhD
Department of Pathology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA

“Assessment of Best Practices for Standardized Quality Assurance Activities in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine”

This session will include both dissemination and discussion of findings from the currently active University of Pittsburgh/CDC Cooperative Agreement entitled: “Assessment of Best Practices for Standardized Quality Assurance Activities in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine”. This project is a multi-institutional project involving an evaluation of the effectiveness of current quality assurance processes that includes clinical outcomes evidence. Specific QA metrics that will be discussed will include cytologic-histologic correlation rates and turnaround time.