How Good is Quality Control in Digital Pathology?

Less than half of centers have quality control (QC) processes for digital reporting.

Study involved 19 members of the Bigpicture consortium.

65 percent of labs have QC checks in some workflow steps.

72 percent of labs reported QC in pre-staining.

60 percent expressed concern about workflow variability.

Digital reporting and display had the least QC measures.

Limitations included small sample size and pre-selected respondents.