From Paul Valenstein: Outside slide reviews: A good investment?

http://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/pdf/10.5858/arpa.2012-0337-ED

Paul Valenstein (2013) Review of Extradepartmental Pathology Diagnoses: Good Medicine? Good Investment?. Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine: February 2013, Vol. 137, No. 2, pp. 156-157.

doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.5858/arpa.2012-0337-ED

EDITORIAL

Review of Extradepartmental Pathology Diagnoses: Good Medicine? Good Investment?

Paul Valenstein , MD

From the Department of Pathology, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

The literature seems clear that review of outside diagnoses before treatment will correct some diagnostic errors, while creating relatively fewer new errors. What is yet not clear is whether this activity is a good institutional or societal investment in a resource-constrained environment, and whether extradepartmental reviews should be conducted routinely or selectively.