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Pathology 2018
Research & Reviews: Journal of Medical and Health Sciences
ISSN: 2319-9865
Page 66
October 08-09, 2018
Edinburgh, Scotland
17
th
International Conference on
Pathology & Cancer
Epidemiology
T
he modern practice of pathology faces two immediate
and major challenges – the need to satisfy a high level of
clinical demand for reliable testing to make treatment as well as
diagnostic decisions and the requirement that this to be done
in an environment where healthcare spending is increasingly
constrained. These international trends have driven widespread
andoften rapid changes in theway inwhichpathology services are
delivered. New models of operation have utilized amalgamation,
centralization, automation and digitization to deliver services with
varying success. As safe and reliable pathology testing underpins
modern healthcare, any failures impact directly on the care of
individuals or a very large numbers of patients and disrupt the
delivery of acute as well as community-based care. There is an
urgent need to reassess these models to ensure that any risks
to patient safety which have arisen during this period of change
are identified and managed. Data from a review of errors known
to be associated patient harm, including a review of claims from
a large medical indemnity insurer, will be presented and a path
forward for the effective management of risks to patients as a
consequence of pathology testing is proposed.
Bev_Rowbotham@snp.com.auFirst do no harm – challenges to be overcome in the modern
practice of pathology
Beverley Rowbotham
Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, Australia
RRJMHS 2018
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