Toward Implementation of a Regional Quality Assurance Program in Cytopathology

Ng, Wai-Kuen; Chiu, Conrad S. C.; Cheng, Yue; Chan, Eva T. Y.; Chiu, Fanny L. L.; Collins, Robert J.

doi:10.1159/000325926

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“…The cost of misdiagnosis can be both financial, in the case of expensive medical procedures, and societal, if child abuse is inaccurately diagnosed based on an examiner's misinterpretation of physical findings. Imaged-based specialties such as radiology and pathology have studied inter-rater reliability issues and have proposed methodology for improvement [41][42][43]. While the child's history remains the most important piece of evidence in child sexual abuse evaluations, physical findings resulting from sexual abuse, when present, are important in the investigative and legal arena.…”

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Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused

Adams

Kellogg

Farst

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Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

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The medical evaluation is an important part of the clinical and legal process when child sexual abuse is suspected. Practitioners who examine children need to be up to date on current recommendations regarding when, how, and by whom these evaluations should be conducted, as well as how the medical findings should be interpreted. A previously published article on guidelines for medical care for sexually abused children has been widely used by physicians, nurses, and nurse practitioners to inform practice guidelines in this field. Since 2007, when the article was published, new research has suggested changes in some of the guidelines and in the table that lists medical and laboratory findings in children evaluated for suspected sexual abuse and suggests how these findings should be interpreted with respect to sexual abuse. A group of specialists in child abuse pediatrics met in person and via online communication from 2011 through 2014 to review published research as well as recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics and to reach consensus on if and how the guidelines and approach to interpretation table should be updated. The revisions are based, when possible, on data from well-designed, unbiased studies published in high-ranking, peer-reviewed, scientific journals that were reviewed and vetted by the authors. When such studies were not available, recommendations were based on expert consensus.

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Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused

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Farst

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Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

158

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“…However, the smaller the sample the more difficult it is to analyze. These problems are more and more realized within the community and programs are being developed to improve this situation (Ng et al [4] for subjective analysis also will not improve this situation; this has been shown for the use of expanded consulting by telepathology: as long as the same subjective algorithms are applied no substantial improvement of diagnostic quality can be achieved (Furness [5]). …”

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Clinical applications of slide‐based cytometry – an update

Gerstner

Laffers

Tárnok

2009

Journal of Biophotonics

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Slide-based cytometric approaches open the possibility to obtain quantitative and objective data from specimens that so far have not been accessible to this kind of analysis. In this review, we will highlight the specific advantages of slide-based cytometry (SBC) and show the applications that have been established for clinical samples. Focuses are cytomic analyses of oncological and hematological samples where the slide-based concept turned out to open new dimensions in understanding underlying cellular networks. We review the recent literature and point out future applications.

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Toward Implementation of a Regional Quality Assurance Program in Cytopathology

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Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused

Updated Guidelines for the Medical Assessment and Care of Children Who May Have Been Sexually Abused

Clinical applications of slide‐based cytometry – an update

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