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The level of accuracy of diagnosis in general histopathological practice appears to be high, although the number of published studies is few [1–3]. The clinically significant discrepancy rate between the original and reviewed or audited diagnoses in these studies varies from 0.26% to 1.2%, with the lower figure coming from a North American community hospital [3] and the higher levels from a British University Teaching Hospital [2]. The difference does not appear to reflect variations in case mix at the two institutions because the details given suggest that the errors were often the result of oversights by the reporting pathologist and that the interpretive errors were mainly common, rather than rare, problems.
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Harris, M., Hartley, A.L. (1997). Value of peer review of pathology in soft tissue sarcomas. In: Verweij, J., Pinedo, H.M., Suit, H.D. (eds) Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Present Achievements and Future Prospects. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 91. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6121-7_1
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