[Histonet] Policy on Floaters

[Mark Tarango]

Your goal is not to have floaters.  If you get one, your policy should set
out to determine the cause of these incidents.  You should track who did it
(in a spreadsheet), where it happened (grossing, embedding, cutting...).
Then you should have a meeting every so often with people from the lab and
some pathologists where you go over all the incidents, brainstorm for
corrective actions, and decide about what you can do differently.

Make sure you have the techs invovled or it won't be very effective.

Mark




On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Cho, Soo-Jin <Soo-Jin.Cho <@t> ucsfmedctr.org>wrote:

> Hello, I'm a resident at UCSF currently working on a QA/QI project
> regarding floaters, with the ultimate goal of formulating a departmental
> policy regarding floaters.  Despite extensive searching on the internet and
> the Histonet archives, I have not found any concrete examples of policies at
> other institutions and was hoping someone could help me out in this regard.
>  Thank you in advance for your help.
>
> Most sincerely,
> Soo-Jin Cho
> Anatomic Pathology
> University of California, San Francisco
>
>
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