A busy practice specializing in Mohs micrographic surgeryMohs micrographic surgery (MMS) will treat several dozen or more patients and generate hundreds or perhaps even thousands of frozen sectionFrozen sections pathology slides in a typical week. Over a year, this means that a practice must manage tens of thousands of glass slides in addition to the paper or electronic documentation associated with each patient. A single mislabeled, lost, or switched specimen may lead to devastating consequences for a patient. To reduce and prevent medical errors, developing a detailed plan for handling this volume of frozen sectionFrozen sections pathologic specimens is necessary. This chapter highlights the importance of proper methods for documentation, storage, and recordRecords keeping that are vital to providing high-quality care for patients undergoing MMS.

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Tissue Specimen Documentation, Record Keeping, and Sample Storage

  • Elliott H. Campbell,
  • Eucabeth Asamoah,
  • Allison B. Robbins,
  • Jeremy S. Youse,
  • Robert H. Cook-Norris,
  • Richelle M. Knudson,
  • Derek Cervenka,
  • Randall K. Roenigk,
  • Robert H. Keichhefer

摘要

A busy practice specializing in Mohs micrographic surgeryMohs micrographic surgery (MMS) will treat several dozen or more patients and generate hundreds or perhaps even thousands of frozen sectionFrozen sections pathology slides in a typical week. Over a year, this means that a practice must manage tens of thousands of glass slides in addition to the paper or electronic documentation associated with each patient. A single mislabeled, lost, or switched specimen may lead to devastating consequences for a patient. To reduce and prevent medical errors, developing a detailed plan for handling this volume of frozen sectionFrozen sections pathologic specimens is necessary. This chapter highlights the importance of proper methods for documentation, storage, and recordRecords keeping that are vital to providing high-quality care for patients undergoing MMS.