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Cytology Proficiency Testing Activities
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Due to public concern about the quality of cytology
services, Congress included special provisions for cytology proficiency testing
in the CLIA Law. PHPPO/DLS has the lead role in
implementing cytology PT on a national scale. A number of activities have been
completed in our efforts to accomplish this task.
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Issued a request for proposals to collect slides for a
national PT program (no viable proposals were received)
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Co-hosted a symposium with the Cytology
Education Consortium that gave states and professional organizations an
opportunity to discuss alternatives to glass slide programs
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Collected, referenced, and assemble glass slides into proficiency
test sets that comply with the February 28, 1992 regulations. Data gathered on
our experience collecting slides was presented as a poster
at the American Society of Cytopathology Fall 1996 meeting
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Awarded cooperative agreements to the American Society
of Clinical Pathology, Thomas Jefferson University, and New England Medical
Center that demonstrated computer-based PT programs are feasible and seem
acceptable to cytotechnologists
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Based on knowledge acquired from cooperative
agreements, developed first computer-based prototype, CytoView®
, which permits an assessment of both locator and interpretive skills of
cytotechnologists:
Slide Presentation (PDF)
Micro-Screen
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Awarded a contract to conduct a research
study to Analytical Sciences, Inc. comparing work performance (measured
by a rescreen of 500 slides) to two methods of PT (glass and computer)
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Developed CytoView™ II to provide educational
feedback and perform team testing of cytotechnologist/pathologist
Demonstration of Cytoview®
II
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Publications:
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Kujawski E and Gagnon MB: Chapter 7: MicroScreen; Virtual Microscopy and virtual
slides in teaching, diagnosis, and research. Pgs 97-108. CRC Press, Taylor and
Francis, 2005.
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Gagnon M, Inhorn S, Hancock J, Keller B, Carpenter D, Merlin T, Hearn T, Thompson P,
and Whalen R: Comparison of Cytology Proficiency Testing- Glass Slides vs.
Virtual Slides. Acta Cytologica 2004;48(6): 788-794.
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Keenlyside R, Collins CL, Hancock JS, et al: Do Proficiency
Test Results Correlate with the Work Performance of Screeners Who Screen
Papanicolaou Smears? Am.J.Clin.Pathol. 1999;112:769-776.
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Taylor RN, Gagnon MC, Lange JV, Lee TL, Draut R, Kujawski E:
CytoView™: A Prototype Computer Image-Based Papanicolaou Smear Proficiency
Test. Acta Cytol. 1999;43:1045-1051.
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Jones BA, Valenstein PN, Steindel SJ: Gynecologic Cytology Turnaround Time. A
College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study of 371 Laboratories. Arch.Pathol.Lab.Med.
1999;123:682-686.
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This page last reviewed: 7/7/2004
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