[Histonet] Fw: Rene, favor to ask...

[Bryan Hewlett]

Hi Tim,

You gotta luv this! Where do they find these auditors?

I can understand the requirement for the use of negative stain controls for 
definable entities,
but for general oversight and other differential general tissue element 
stains, I am at a loss!

What would be required is a tissue with absolutely NO stainable entities 
(normal or abnormal),
that could be fixed and processed identically to the test material and then 
stained in the same manner at the same time.
If you could find such a thing, my hat is off to you!
Oh wait, I just had a thought.
Get all the auditors to donate their brains to science to be used for this 
purpose, they obviously have no stainable elements!
You would then solve both problems; a negative control for this purpose and 
no mindless auditors.

All the best,

Bryan


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rene J Buesa" <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>
To: <histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu>; <Timothy.Morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:48 PM
Subject: [Histonet] Fw: Rene, favor to ask...


There you have it!
René J.

ken, Tim <Timothy.Morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org> wrote:


From: Morken, Tim <Timothy.Morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org>
Subject: Rene, favor to ask...
To: "rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com" <rjbuesa <@t> yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 12:44 PM








Rene, I have a favor to ask. I am having trouble posting to histonet – it 
keeps bouncing back, though I am receiving histonet emails.

Could you post this question to histonet for me? I need some answers ASAP.

Thanks!
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Hi all,

Our Joint Commission audit was just completed (first time for JC for me). We 
passed almost everything fine.

The one thing they came up with is that we don’t use “negative controls” for 
most of the special stains – like trichrome, congo red, etc.
We use negative controls for micro-organism cases but not for the others. In 
fact I’ve never heard of anyone doing that.

Has anyone had this issue with JC?
Does anyone run “negative” controls for non-organism special stains?
Frankly I’m not sure how that would be done for something like a trichrome 
or other purely tissue-element stains.
Has anyone successfully explained to JC why we don’t run negative controls 
for general special stains?

Thanks for any insight!

Tim Morken
Supervisor, Histology / IPOX
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, CA

Email: tim.morken <@t> ucsfmedctr.org

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