Improving Malignancy Detection Rates in Body Fluids Submitted to the Hematology Laboratory for Nucleated Cell Count and Differential: A Quality Improvement Study.

CONCLUSIONS.—: We demonstrate the comparatively lower malignancy detection rate for body fluid specimens processed in our hematology laboratory, particularly for carcinomas. Hematology technologist education/training improved the malignancy detection rate, an important quality improvement given the large proportion of body fluids undergoing hematology evaluation without concurrent cytology reviews.
PMID: 32491945 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine - June 2, 2020 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Zhang ML, Maglantay RJ, Cunningham VL, Goodwin MT, Feeney MW, Keefe J, Tambouret RH, Sohani AR Tags: Arch Pathol Lab Med Source Type: research