THE APPIA MISSION
Cooperative industry partners dedicated to advancing anatomic pathology to benefit patient care by advocating and fostering quality, education, and best practices.
TOPS (Tissue Optimization and Pre-analytic Standardization) is APPIA's first education program for your entire health care delivery team on the criticality of tissue pre-analytics. The TOPS program serves the interests of the patient's diagnostic sample by providing best practice suggestions and guidelines on tissue handling and pre-analytics for surgeons, nurses, pathologists, laboratory technologists, educators and patient advocacy groups.