Publications by authors named "David Nigel Poller"
Article Synopsis
- - This review article discusses ways to categorize diagnostic errors in pathology and cytology, focusing on diagnostic accuracy and human factors (HFs) affecting those errors.
- - It introduces a 12-point checklist for diagnostic errors inspired by Dupont's aerospace HF checklist, addressing issues like communication failures, complacency, and fatigue, that can lead to inaccuracies in diagnosis.
- - The article emphasizes the need for validation of this checklist and highlights its potential for analyzing diagnostic errors both after they occur and during the diagnostic process.
Objective: Few studies have modelled the economics of thyroid FNA.
Methods: A simple spreadsheet economic model for delivery of thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytology is described using the UK Royal College of Pathologists' Classification for thyroid FNA which is based on The Bethesda System for Reporting Thyroid Cytopathology.
Results: We show an estimated 27.