Reader Accuracy in Pathology Interpretation and Diagnosis: Perception and Cognition (RAPID-PC)

病理解释和诊断的读者准确性：感知和认知 (RAPID-PC)

• 批准号: 10165663
• 负责人: JOANN G ELMORE
• 金额: $ 63.16万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-06-12 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10165663
• 关键词: Behavior; Breast Diseases; Breast biopsy; Certification; Chemotherapy and/or radiation; Clinical; Cognition; Cognitive; Complex; Consultations; Country; Cross-Sectional Studies; Data; Data Collection; Development; Diagnosis; Diagnostic; Diagnostic Errors; Education; FDA approved; Funding; Future; Glass; Histopathology; Human; Image; Image Analysis; Knowledge; Malignant Neoplasms; Mastectomy; Medical Imaging; Modeling; Operative Surgical Procedures; Pathologic; Pathologist; Pathology; Pathology processes; Patient Care; Patients; Perception; Physicians; Process; Radiation therapy; Reader; Recommendation; Recording of previous events; Research; Research Design; Residencies; Screening for cancer; Second Opinions; Shipping; Site; Slide; Technology; Testing; Time; Training; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Visual; Visual Perception; Work; accurate diagnosis; anticancer research; apprenticeship; base; breast pathology; cancer diagnosis; clinical practice; clinical research site; cognitive process; design; diagnostic accuracy; digital; digital imaging; experience; high resolution imaging; improved; innovation; longitudinal analysis; malignant breast neoplasm; medical schools; multidisciplinary; next generation; programs; recruit; skills; synergism; tool; visual tracking; whole slide imaging

Accurate pathologic diagnoses are the cornerstone of both patient care and cancer research. The diagnostic process requires complex visual perceptual tasks interacting with cognitive processes, yet little research has been done to understand and potentially improve how skills needed for accurate diagnoses are acquired. There is an especially profound lack of data on the interpretative process in the field of pathology. Our prior work identified a concerning level of diagnostic disagreement and errors in the interpretation of breast biopsies related to cancer screening and millions of breast biopsies are obtained each year. The proposed research will help improve the accuracy of pathologists diagnosing breast disease and cancer. We will examine breast pathology interpretation in residents and experienced pathologists while they interpret medical images to understand how expertise develops across the entire diagnosis process from primary diagnoses to second opinions. First, we will examine the development of expertise among pathology resident trainees at ten U.S. medical schools in both cross-sectional analysis (Aim 1a) and in a longitudinal analysis gathering data on the same residents annually over three years of training (Aim 1b). Concurrently, we will study the perceptual and cognitive origins of diagnostic accuracy and errors among experienced pathologists while they interpret images for primary diagnosis (Aim 2). Pathologists from Aim 2 will then be asked to provide “second opinions” on cases to characterize how knowledge of an initial diagnosis impacts the interpretive process when providing diagnostic second opinions (Aim 3). Using data from Aims 1-3, we will develop and test a pilot educational program (Aim 4) designed to facilitate the development of expertise in pathology. The proposed work is innovative in the use of cutting-edge digital whole slide images and recording eye tracking and high-resolution image navigation behavior and in our plan to follow the same residents longitudinally as they progress in training over three years. Providing diagnoses using digital imaging, recently approved by the FDA, is in the future of pathology; our work will both improve the diagnostic accuracy of current practicing pathologists and guide training the next generation. Strengths of our application include 1) our multidisciplinary team with experience leading similar multi-site R01-funded studies; 2) an efficient data collection plan that leverages access to existing well-characterized breast biopsy cases, a fully developed image viewing and tracking tool, and synergy between the Aims; 3) unparalleled access to >200 pathologists from ten clinical sites across the country; and 4) a history of successful physician recruitment into similar studies.

准确的病理诊断是病人治疗和癌症治疗的基石