Errors in thyroid gland fine-needle aspiration.

Stephen S. Raab; Colleen M. Vrbin; Dana Marie Grzybicki; Daniel Sudilovsky; Ronald Balassanian; Richard J. Zarbo; Frederick A. Meier

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Errors in thyroid gland fine-needle aspiration.

May 31, 2006

Raab SS, Vrbin CM, Grzybicki DM, et al. Am J Clin Pathol. 2007;125(6).

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This AHRQ–funded study used root cause analysis to explore errors in a specific diagnostic procedure. They identified failure modes and developed an improvement initiative to enhance the accuracy of the process.

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