Publications & Research

• Study of Cross-Contamination of Biopsy Specimens in 69 Anatomic Pathology Laboratories Raises Concerns about Test Quality and Patient Safety
  Patricia Kirk
  Dark Daily Clinical Laboratory and Pathology News
  
  
• Risk of Misdiagnosis Due to Tissue Contamination May be Higher for Certain Specimen Types
  John B. Carpenter, MD
  DARK Daily Laboratory and Pathology News
  
  
• Extraneous Tissue in Surgical Pathology
  Gordon N. Gephardt, MD, Richard J. Zarbo, MD, DMD
  Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, November 1996
  
  
• Tissue Floaters and Contaminants
  Eric Platt, BS; Paul Sommer; Linda McDonald, MT, ASCP; Ana Bennett, MD; Jennifer Hunt, MD
  Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, June 2009
  
  
• A National Agenda for the Future of Pathology in Personalized Medicine
  Peter J. Tonellato, PhD, James M. Crawford, MD, PhD, Mark S. Boguski, MD, PhD, and Jeffrey E. Saffitz, MD, PhD
  American Journal of Clinical Pathology, May 2011
  
  
• Measurement of stainer bath contamination and evaluation of common mitigation strategies
  Cahill, Angie; Pearson, Jeff
  Journal of Histotechnology, Volume 35, Number 3, pp. 130-139(10), September 2012

• Patient safety and cancer: the dialogue begins on Capitol Hill
  Eric Walk, MD, FCAP
  Medical Laboratory Observer, May 2013

• Huddles, checklists, and Dale Carnegie:  promoting a culture of patient safety
  Anne Paxton
  CAP.org, November 2011

• The safety implications of missed test results for hospitalised patients
  Joanne Callen, Andrew Georgiou, Julie Li, Johanna I Westbrook
  BMJ Quality and Safety, February 2011

Journal of Histotechnology Reports on Real Risk of Errors in Patient Tissue Biopsy Processing 
by Ventana Medical Systems
Published on Jul 17, 2013