how many slides you look at per day

[narvanation]

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Anyone here counted ow many slides they look at a day. I recently counted and i did 300 slides that day (around 70) cases of biopsies. My brain is usually fired by the end. Am I being overworked?

 

[MetroPath]

One lab my friends work at they are required to look at 100 biopsies (88305) a day.

 

[pathslides]

I avg prob 175 slides a day when I take into account new cases and stains or levels from previous holdovers. My eyes are tired after that. Everyone in path is overworked.

 

[Denmark]

150 to 250 a day, incl. cytology.

 

[Guest8]

100% share ranges from 80-150 slides a day, not counting levels/stains I order. Some days I do 300 or so due to a side gig at an in-office lab. I would say we average around 110/day.

 

[Shufflin]

1 slide. I glance at it, don't know what I'm looking at, see all the pretty colors, and put it down. I'm not a pathologist.

 

[Dave CX]

300. All GI.

 

[narvanation]

ok so 300 is on the higher range then. I'll make sure my employer does not require me to do more 🙂

 

[narvanation]

300. All GI.

can i ask you how do you transcribe your cases? we have a transcritionist on board.

 

[LADoc00]

100 to 500. the variation is huge.

 

[Euchromatin]

ranges anywhere from 90-240, although average is probably around 120-140
I do purely general surgicals, so that does not include any derms, GI biopsies, bone marrows, peripheral blood or cytology.

This is probably self-evident, but total slide numbers could also vary considerably depending on how many H&E levels different groups get up front on different types of specimens and also how many levels one's histology department puts on a single slide.

 

[Spikebd]

100 to 500. the variation is huge.

CRANK

 

[Med Director New England]

Looks like most are including levels in slide count (not blocks).

Variable but total slides for me averages around 140/ day and maybe as high as 200. This includes everything, levels, IHCs, a few blood smears, daily QC for IHCs, etc.

Most of my work is general mix of SP with a fair amount of cytology. ~ 30-40 accessions / day

I have good support including transcription that is entered quickly.

This typically takes me about 4-6 hrs of scope time, remainder proofing and finalizing with the balance of time taken up by various CP and admin type tasks.

Some of the numbers above are mind blowing.

 

[Dave CX]

can i ask you how do you transcribe your cases? we have a transcritionist on board.

I key in my diagnoses. I have drop down menus and 2 or 3 letter codes for the most common 80 or so diagnoses. Occasionally I have to type something or modify. Its VERY efficient. I average 5 hours for 230 88305's. Its much harder to build a library of all of your diagnoses when you are working in a hospital though as I did for over a decade. I do only office based out patient GI now.

 

[narvanation]

500 would be innnsaaanneee

 

[pathslides]

300 is nuts. 500 is ludicrous.

 

[yaah]

I topped out at close to 400 last year on a busy GU day. Typically maybe 150. It varies depending on who's on vacation and such. In residency I had a 1000 slide day (many of them twice because the attending had to see them too). As to how busy that feels it's totally dependent on other factors like what kinds of cases they are, what else you are dealing with that day, and such. A 100 slide day can feel busy if it's a heavy "clinical issues" day, whereas a 300 day can feel fairly mild if they're all things in your wheelhouse and they don't need extra stains or levels or whatever.

No matter what, you have to be careful with yourself though on busy days - develop a routine and don't skimp on it when it's busy. Busy days you have to make sure you're not rushing through things to leave early or whatever. Better to delay a case than sign it out wrong.

 

[LADoc00]

Ive signed out 55x12-part prostate biopsies with another 100+ immunos in a single Saturday, not even a workday. A weeekend! What's that? 760 slides?

Not my highest volume day ever but I think when I tallied in the OLD reimbursement coding for the urine FISH, it was north of 40K in Medicare reimbursement. So it would be my highest "par medicare equivalent" billing day ever I think.... It was raining that day and I when I got done all I could think about, as I walked around town in the rain, was if I could only do this everyday I would be sitting on a beach in Mexico for the rest of my life in mere years not decades!

 

[Dave CX]

Nice LA. That's what i'm talkin about!!!!!

 

[Torsed]

I’d say between 100 to 250.

Depends on how many big cases. I’m still of the school to put a majority of the prostate in. I always put about 20 blocks on cancer mastectomies.