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The Joint Commission requires a policy on such removals wherever they exist (EC, OR, ICU, clinic).  It may be that some removed (cloths, bullets, sexual assault kit collected material) be governed by a forensiC and chain of evidence hospital policy.  The policies must be timely, practable, fuNctional, and applicable.   It is really a hospital, not a state issue.  

K
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A question for the list:  do your states' departments of public health/medical boards/etc require that all tissue and/or material removed in the course of a surgical procedure be submitted to pathology for gross and microscopic examination?

Ron

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