The surgical pathology laboratory in Mwanza, Tanzania: a survey on the reproducibility of diagnoses after the first years of autonomous activity
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- 作者：R. Tumino ; P. F. Rambau ; F. Callea ; L. Leoncini ; R. Monaco…
- 关键词：Reproducibility ; K ; statistic ; Error ; Quality control ; Low ; Human Development Index countries ; Pathology diagnosis
- 刊名：Infectious Agents and Cancer
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：12
- 期：1
- 全文大小：592KB
- 刊物主题：Cancer Research; Infectious Diseases; Oncology; Tropical Medicine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1750-9378
- 卷排序：12
文摘
BackgroundIn 2000, an Italian non-governmental organisation (NGO) began a 9-year project to establish a surgical pathology laboratory at the Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in Mwanza, Tanzania, a country with a low Human Development Index (HDI), and as of 2009, the laboratory was operating autonomously. The present survey aims to evaluate the reproducibility of histological and cytological diagnoses assigned in the laboratory’s early years of autonomous activity. We selected a random sample of 196 histological and cytological diagnoses issued in 2010–2011 at the BMC surgical pathology laboratory. The corresponding samples were sent to Italy for review by Italian senior pathologists, who were blinded to the local results. Samples were classified into four diagnostic categories: malignant, benign, inflammatory, and suspicious. The two-observer kappa-statistic for categorised (qualitative) data was then calculated to measure diagnostic concordance between the local Tanzanian pathologists and Italian senior pathologists. The k-Cohen was calculated for concordance in the overall study sample. Concordance and discordance rates were also stratified by subset: general adult, paediatric/adolescent, and lymphoproliferative histopathological diagnoses; fluid and fine needle aspiration (FNA) cytological diagnoses; and PAP tests. Discordance was also categorised by the corresponding hypothetical clinical implications: high, intermediate, and not significant.