Clinical Faceoff: Should Routine Histopathological Analysis be Performed on Specimens Obtained During Primary Arthroplasty Surgery?

摘要

The United States Institute of Medicine (IOM) has described six domains of healthcare quality [7]: Safety, effectiveness, efficiency, patient-centeredness, equity, and timeliness. But even within the same healthcare process—such as histopathological analysis of surgical specimens—different experts and experts from different backgrounds may value each of those domains somewhat differently.