... in varied laboratory processes which makes them key players in quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement measures. Many cytotechnologists endorse performing quality assurance and/or quality control activities as part of their duties. Summary: In this article, we review some of the key...

...Irena Srebotnik Kirbiš; Ruben Rodrigues Roque; Margareta Strojan Fležar Introduction: Integrated on-slide positive controls are a standard quality assurance and quality control measure for immunohistochemistry on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections. They ensure identical analytical...

... manner as the patient samples, optimized ICC protocols, and participation in external quality control for ICC are the pillars of good quality management and essential to ensure safe and reliable patient diagnostics. Fig. 1. Comparison of IHC reactions for estrogen receptors, Ki-67, HMB-45, and CD3...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Quality control Mass screening Interobserver variability Uterine cervical neoplasms Reproducibility of results...

... hand, there was a substantial decrease in negative results from 8,155 to 6,401. Assessing the relative risk of FN results in smears that were not referred to quality control (100% RR) revealed the following results: atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASC-US), 2.93; low-grade squamous...

...Juliana Cristina Magalhães; Cinara Zago Silveira Ázara; Sulene Brito do Nascimento Tavares; Edna Joana Claudio Manrique; Rita Goreti Amaral Objective: We aimed to evaluate the impact of implementing 100% rapid review (100% RR) as a quality control tool in cervical smear cytology. Design: A cross...

...José Queiroz Filho; Janaina Cristiana de Oliveira Crispim Freitas; Daliana Caldas Pessoa; José Eleutério Júnior; Paulo César Giraldo; Ana Katherine Gonçalves Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the 100% rapid review (100%-RR) as an effective tool for internal quality control (IQC...

... quality control (QC) rescreening. False-negative rates (FNRs) were evaluated by a multi-institutional retrospective study. Study Design: Cervical cytology slides that had already been reported as negative for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (NILM) were chosen arbitrarily for FocalPoint rescreening...

...Jeel Moya-Salazar; Victor Rojas-Zumaran Objectives: To validate the modification of the prolonged Papanicolaou stain based on the quality control of time, units and staining stages (micro- and macroscopic), and on the stain reactivation based on the control. Study Design: A prospective study...

...Margherita Branca; Adhemar Longatto-Filho Objective: We aimed to critically evaluate the importance of quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) strategies in the routine work of uterine cervix cytology. Study Design: We revised all the main principles of QC and QA that are already being...

...Suelene Brito do Nascimento Tavares; Nádja L. Alves de Souza; Edna J.C. Manrique; Cinara Zago Silveira Ázara; Erika Aparecida da Silveira; Rita Goreti Amaral Objective: To evaluate the performance of rapid prescreening (RPS) and 100% rapid review (RR-100%) as internal quality control (IQC) methods...

...Cinara Zago Silveira Ázara; Edna Joana Cláudio Manrique; Nádja Lindany Alves de Souza; Andryne Rego Rodrigues; Suelene Brito do Nascimento Tavares; Rita Goreti Amaral Objective: To compare the variability of screening tests held at laboratories with the Unit for External Quality Control (UEQC...

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...Peter Vooijs OPINION POLL Acta Cytologica Opinion Poll on Quality Assurance and Quality Control Conducted by the Committee on Continuing Education and Quality Assurance of the International Academy of Cytology G. Peter Vooijs, M.D., Ph.D., F.I.A.C., F.R.C.Path. The International Academy...

... and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. mass rescreening cervical smears quality control Acta Cytologica Rapid Screening of Cervical Smears as a Method...

... rescreening pro- smears. (Acta Cytol 1997;41:79 81) cedure. In our laboratory, which processes more than Keywords: cervical smears, quality control, neural 130,000 cervical smears annually, rapid rescreening network (computer), PAPNET. was formally introduced in October 1995. Since From the Department...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. automation quality control cervical smears mass screening AutoPap 300 Acta Cytologica AutoPap 300 QC System Scoring...