title: Quality assurance. Sisyphean or sibylline?
abstract: Quality control and quality assurance are inseparable from the practice of anatomic and clinical pathology and are not new to either of these disciplines. Indeed, the laboratory comparison programs of the College of American Pathologists were founded on such principles nearly a half-century ago. The "rediscovery" of these principles has spawned an industry unto itself and in this event pathology is in danger of entangling itself in an expensive, parallel (not integral) process that may be Sisyphean.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pathology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
authors.forename: J G
authors.initials: JG
authors.lastname: Batsakis
mesh_terms: D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D011786:Quality Control