[Histonet] Staffing for IHC

[Rene J Buesa]

The range for histotechs "doing other tasks" is from 200 to 78,300 slides/year (1 to 301 slides/day).
The threshold from 99 laboratories is 9,500 slides/year = 37 slides/day per histotech.
René J.

--- On Thu, 12/17/09, Angela Bitting <akbitting <@t> geisinger.edu> wrote:


From: Angela Bitting <akbitting <@t> geisinger.edu>
Subject: [Histonet] Staffing for IHC
To: histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
Date: Thursday, December 17, 2009, 12:42 PM


I'm hoping some of the larger hospitals out there will share their data with me.
I'm curious as to how labs are staffed for doing IF/IHC/CISH. 
A small portion of our staining protocols still require pretreatment by hand, but we run instruments that do the pretreatments on board for the majority of our stains.
We have 2 IHC techs, 1 on 1st shift and 1 on 3rd shift.Together they are cutting and staining between 200-350 slides per day. I think this is a high volume for only two people. What do you all think?



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