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Quality Management in Anatomic Pathology: Strategies for Assessment, Improvement, and Assurance is a comprehensive manual designed to improve patient care while ensuring your laboratory achieves its accreditation standards. It provides pathologists and lab directors with the tools necessary to develop, implement, and maintain a comprehensive quality program, with an emphasis on regulatory compliance and cross-references to the CAP Laboratory Accreditation Program checklists, Joint Commission standards, and CLIA ’88. Contents include general approaches to quality management, including designing a plan, defining and preventing errors, and plan components and monitors; systematic approaches to quality assurance in histology, intraoperative consultation, cytopathology, autopsy, immunohistochemistry, and molecular pathology; informatics, ISO 15189, and specimen tracking systems; and damage control and legal issues. | ||||||||||||