title: Measuring quality in anatomic pathology.
abstract: This article focuses mainly on diagnostic accuracy in measuring quality in anatomic pathology, noting that measuring any quality metric is complex and demanding. The authors discuss standardization and its variability within and across areas of care delivery and efforts involving defining and measuring error to achieve pathology quality and patient safety. They propose that data linking error to patient outcome are critical for developing quality improvement initiatives targeting errors that cause patient harm in addition to using methods of root cause analysis, beyond those traditionally used in cytologic-histologic correlation, to assist in the development of error reduction and quality improvement plans.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA. stephen.raab@uchsc.edu
authors.forename: Stephen S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Raab
authors.forename: Dana Marie
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Grzybicki
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D010338:Pathology, Clinical / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D011786:Quality Control; D012449:Safety