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REFERENCES (Books & Articles)

Altman LK. "Getting to the Core of Mistakes in Medicine". The New York Times. February 19 , 2000.

Arbiser ZK, Folpe AL, Weiss SW. Role of Second Opinions in Soft Tissue Pathology. Modern Pathol 13:218A, 2000.

"Breast Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients". Version II. American Cancer Society, June 1999, p13.

Chang JH, Vines E, et al. The Impact of a Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Center on Recommendations for Patient Management. Cancer. 2001; 91: 1231-7.

Coblentz TR, Mills SE, Theodorescu D. Impact of Second Opinion Pathology in the Definitive Management of Patients with Bladder Cancer. Cancer. 2001; 91: 1284-90.

Eisenberg JM. "Statement on Medical Errors before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor." Department of Health, Human Services, and Education. December 13, 1999. Washington, D.C.

Gupta D, Layfield LJ. Prevalence of Inter-institutional Anatomic Pathology Slide Review. Am J Surg Pathol. 2000; 24: 280-284.

Kohn LT, Corrigan JM, Donaldson MF, eds. To Err is Human. Building a Safer Health System. Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C. 1999.

Kronz JD, Westra WH, Epstein JI. Mandatory Second Opinion Surgical Pathology at a Large Referral Hospital. Cancer. 1999;86:2426-2435.

Leape LL. Error in Medicine. JAMA. 1994; 272: 1851-1858.

Lind AC, Bewtra C, Healy JC, et al. Prospective Peer Review in Surgical Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 1995; 104:560-566.

Pear R. "Clinton To Order Federal Agencies to Reduce Medical Errors". The New York Times. December 7, 1999.

Physician Insurers Association of America, Breast Cancer Study. Washington, D.C. June 1995.

Ramsay AD. Errors in Histopathology Reporting: Detection and Avoidance. Histopathology. 1999; 34:481-490.

Recommendations for Quality Assurance and Improvement in Surgical and Autopsy Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol 2006; 126: 337-340.

Renshaw AA, Cartagena N. Agreement and Error Rates Using Blinded Review to Evaluate Surgical Pathology of Biopsy Material. Am J Clin Pathol 2003;119: 797-800.

Rosen, PP. Review of 'Outside' Pathology Before Treatment Should Be Mandatory. Am J Surg Pathol 2002; 26:1235-6.

Tarkan L. "Value of Second Opinions is Underscored in Study of Biopsies". The New York Times. April 4, 2000, D7.

Tomaszewski JE, Bear HD, Connally JA, Epstein JI, et al. Consensus Conference on Second Opinions in Diagnositic Anatomic Pathology. Am J Clin Pathol. 2000; 114:329-335.

Troxel DB. Errors in Surgical Pathology. Am J Surg Pathol 2004; 28: 1092-1095.

Wetherington RW, Cooper HS. Clinical Significance of Performing and/or Repeating Immunohistochemistry on Patients with Previous Diagnosis of Cancer Coming to a National Comprehensive Cancer Center. (Abstract). Modern Pathol 2001; 14: 230A.

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