Is the laboratory required to submit results from each pathologist during every PT event?
Only the results of the laboratory are reported to the PT provider. The laboratory is not required to provide responses from each pathologist for every PT challenge; however, these challenges must be integrated into the routine laboratory workload and analyzed using the same personnel and systems as for patient samples. Thus, if multiple pathologists routinely report HER2 results in your lab, PT challenges must be done by a rotation that allows all pathologists to participate in scoring these challenges.
