Anil Malleshi Betigeri Author

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Role of internal quality audits in surgical pathology: Outcome in an Indian tertiary care hospital

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Anil Malleshi Betigeri

In developing countries like India, accreditation is still a voluntary, rather a mandatory process. External Quality Assurance Schemes in Surgical pathology are still at nascent stage. Most pathologists (and few other clinicians) probably subconsciously accept intra/inter observer bias in practicing this subjective specialty. However, they usually overlook it; partly because they have no secure alternate quality assurance methods to cost effectively substitute locally standardized customer satisfaction benchmarks. In this, art of practicing science, it is important to highlight that, if morphological features cannot be reliably, reproducible and quantified by group of fellow pathologists, any conclusion that is clinically important is almost meaningless and, at worst misleading. Present... view more»

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