Effectiveness of random and focused review in detecting surgical pathology error.

Stephen S. Raab; Dana M. Grzybicki; Laura K. Mahood; Anil Parwani V; Shih-Fan Kuan; Uma N. Rao

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Effectiveness of random and focused review in detecting surgical pathology error.

January 14, 2009

Raab SS, Grzybicki DM, Mahood LK, et al. Am J Clin Pathol. 2008;130(6):905-12.

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This study found that a focused review process detects a higher proportion of surgical pathology errors than a targeted random review process.

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