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D W Penner

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PubMed1978

Cost effectiveness of the autopsy in maintaining and improving the standard of patient care.

A research model has been designed to attempt to obtain data that would help make the autopsy more effective in bringing about better patient care. To maintain and improve patient care, we must demonstrate that which is good about the present state of the practice of medicine and maintain it, and those areas in which improvement is possible, and then strive to change them. The autopsy can play an important role in this process. A better understanding of the mechanism by which the autopsy achieves this key role will enhance its contributions.

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PubMed1967

Pathology 1966.

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PubMed1966

Pathology 1965.

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An overview of the College of American Pathologists' programs in surgical pathology and cytopathology. Data summary of diagnostic performance in cervical cytopathology.

The survey programs in surgical pathology and cytopathology of the College of American Pathologists are described, along with a summary of the data produced on diagnostic performance in cytopathology. The levels of agreement between individual diagnoses and consensus diagnoses were highest for slides in the "negative" and "positive" categories and somewhat less for slides in the "suspicious" categories. Submission of slides with 70% or less agreement and slides on which a consensus had not been reached to a new group of observers yielded similar levels of agreement, indicating that there is a fairly small percentage of cervical smears that are diagnostic problems. Agreement levels, especially in relation to false negatives and false positives, represent a commendable achievement, especially considering that cervical cytology is a screening procedure and that "suspicious" smears result in further investigations. It is also important to recognize that additional clinical data and studies are often taken into consideration before definitive treatment is begun or additional follow-up smears are taken.

Cytodiagnosis↗