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Comparison of Three Methods for Measuring Workload in Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology. American journal of clinical pathology Cloetingh, D., Schmidt, R. A., Kong, C. S. 2017

Abstract

Pathologist workload in the United States has traditionally been measured by relative value units (RVUs), which is often criticized for providing an inaccurate estimate of actual work. This study compares three methods for measuring workload.Surgical pathology and cytopathology workload for 1 representative month at Stanford Health Care was assessed using three different methods: RVUs, Royal College of Pathologists (RCP) point system, and University of Washington-Seattle (UW) slide count method.Pearson linear regression analysis showed a strong positive correlation of RVUs with the RCP (0.93, P ?

View details for DOI 10.1093/ajcp/aqx022

View details for PubMedID 28582484