A Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment of Frozen Section Diagnosis Accuracy and Deferral Rate Across Organ Systems.

Anas MohamedMuhammad Masood HassanWen ZhongAisha KousarKotaro TakedaDeepak DonthiAreeba RizviMarwan MajeedAhmed I YounesAhlam AliAnn SuttonGina MurrayAbdullah ThayyilJohn FallonKim Geisinger

Published in: American journal of clinical pathology (2022)

Careful gross evaluation and microscopic examination of multiple levels should minimize specimen-sampling error and block-sampling error, respectively. Periodic review of accuracy and deferral rates may help reduce errors and improve the overall performance of this essential procedure.

Keyphrases

high resolution
minimally invasive
systematic review
patient safety
adverse drug