Pathology Errors Trigger Efforts to Improve Standards in Canadian Medical Labs

Dec 15, 2010 | Compliance, Legal, and Malpractice, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

New National Pathology Council Will Tackle Quality Issues, But Pathologist Understaffing Remains in Some Regions In Canada, anatomic pathology has a public black eye due to disclosures of pathology misdiagnoses occurring in multiple medical laboratories over the past six years. One big lesson from these events is that public trust in the integrity of clinical laboratory tests is a precious asset that must be protected. Now comes news that pathologists in Canada will squarely address the issue...

PART TWO: Quebec’s Debate about Breast Cancer Test Errors Turns to Questions about Defining Accuracy of Pathology Laboratory Testing

Dec 28, 2009 | Laboratory Management and Operations, Laboratory News, Laboratory Pathology

Specialist physicians in Quebec question why the outside review of ER and HER2 breast cancer pathology test results used a 1% standard versus a 10% standard Public debate in Quebec about inaccurate tests for breast cancer by the province’s pathology laboratories has turned attention to an area of pathology testing which is seldom discussed in public forums. It is the situation where there is often significant variability in rate of false positives and false negatives reported by different...
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