Evaluating the effectiveness of quality assurance rounds in reducing pathology reporting errors at a pediatric hospital

Objectives: Non-diagnostic errors (typographical errors, lack of synoptic use, etc) in pathology can not only impact trust between patients and physicians, but can potentially have a direct effect on patient care. Our institution holds monthly quality assurance (QA) rounds that retrospectively analyze randomly selected reports, with the goal of reducing the rate of non-diagnostic errors. This study evaluates the effectiveness of those rounds and elucidates additional trends.