RE: PARAFFIN BLOCKS

From:Gary Gill
General Laboratory
Accession log records 2 years
Maintenance/instrument maintenance 2 years
Quality control records 2 years
 
Cytology
Slides (negative-unsatisfactory) 5 years
Slides (suspicious-positive) 5 years
Fine needle aspiration slides 10 years
Reports 10 years
 
Surgical Pathology (including bone marrows)
Wet tissue 2 weeks after final report
Paraffin blocks 10 years
Slides 10 years
Reports 10 years
 
See CAP's Retention of Laboratory Records and Materials: ftp://ftp.cap.org/lapdocs/retention_1101.pdf
 
Gary Gill
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Behnaz Sohrab [mailto:SohrabB@wmmcpo.ah.org]
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 3:25 PM
To: histonet@pathology.swmed.edu
Subject: PARAFFIN BLOCKS

We are having cap inspection in June. My pathologists are telling me that CAP is requiring to keep the paraffin blocks for 10 years ?  Our policy at present time is : Paraffin blocks 5 years
                              Slides 10 years
 I would love to hear from you all !  Thanks
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