PM101 Critical Practice Issues in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology: Critical Values and Critical Diagnoses
2:00–4:00 pm
2.0 CME/CE CREDITS
Do you know that the Joint Commission requires every laboratory to establish a list of critical values for clinical pathology? In addition, anatomic pathologists have begun to establish and monitor critical diagnoses. Learn how innovative practices have responded in establishing practice-unique critical values and critical diagnoses. The course will feature perspectives from an experienced laboratory medical director from a large academic medical center in clinical pathology and a surgical pathologist from a busy pathology practice. The session will include ample time for questions and answers.
You will learn to:
- Explain the intent of the Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal regarding critical values
- Describe critical values and their importance to patient care
- Establish critical results in clinical pathology for your laboratory using quality benchmarks
- Explain what critical diagnoses in surgical pathology and cytopathology are and why every pathologist needs to be familiar with them
Faculty
James S. Hernandez, MD, MS, FCAP
Jan F. Silverman, MD, FCAP
Elizabeth A. Wagar, MD, FCAP