TY - JOUR T1 - A template for a clinico-pathological audit of medical liver biopsies JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 935 LP - 937 DO - 10.1136/jclinpath-2015-203023 VL - 68 IS - 11 AU - Richard Colling AU - Eve Fryer AU - Jeremy Cobbold AU - Jane Collier AU - Elena Collantes AU - Lai Mun Wang AU - Stefan Hubscher AU - Judith Wyatt AU - Kenneth Fleming Y1 - 2015/11/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/68/11/935.abstract N2 - Aims With changing indications for performing medical liver biopsies, we aimed to develop a tool to allow pathologists to evaluate the current usefulness, value and impact of their medical liver biopsy service.Methods We designed and piloted a questionnaire-based clinico-pathological audit for medical liver biopsies.Results The audit tool was simple to implement and provided useful information about our service. Hepatologists felt that 96% of reports were clinically useful. 56% of biopsies confirmed clinical diagnoses, 46% helped differentiate between diagnoses and 42% were able to exclude possible diagnoses. 74% resulted in a change of management and 27% of liver biopsies resulted in a diagnosis which was not clinically suspected.Conclusions We demonstrate the usefulness of an audit tool in providing evidence of the value of the liver pathology service in a large UK regional centre. ER -