Daniel D. Mais, MD

Interventional pathologist
Director of Surgical Pathology
University of Texas

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Define 'quality': IOM refers to 'desired outcomes', in the case of this study defined better by excision than by expert panel. #pathchat

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Define accurate: The study compared diagnoses to an expert panel that agreed with itself 75% of the time. #pathchat

[Daniel D. Mais, MD @danielmaismd]

A1: Define 'accurate.' The JAMA study made a gold standard of an expert panel that had 75% intra-group agreement.

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