ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory

ASCLS: Emphasizing Teamwork to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy

November 10, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Home Page, Quality Care

Diagnostic errors represent a prominent issue for patient safety. In an effort to improve accuracy in patient diagnosis, recent recommendations from the Institute of Medicine suggest that increased emphasis sh...

ASCLS: Looking into Improving Diagnosis in Health Care

Catherine Otto, Ph.D., MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM and Karen Golemboski, Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)CM

October 13, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Since To Err is Human was published in 2000, healthcare has focused upon improving patient safety; specifically, reducing errors, decreasing hospital readmissions, and creating systems to reduce harm to patient...

Improving Patient Safety–Employing Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice

Catherine Otto, Ph.D., MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM

June 9, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

On a daily basis medical laboratory professionals receive orders to perform laboratory tests that are appropriate as well as inappropriate with respect to providing clinicians with information that adds value t...

Quality Improvement: The Process to Improve Patient Safety

Karen Golemboski, Ph.D., MLS(ASCP)CM

May 3, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

The science of Quality Improvement (sometimes referred to as Continuous Quality Improvement or Total Quality Management) has been applied for decades in manufacturing and other industries to reduce defects and ...

Safe Patient Care Through Competent Management and Utilization of Laboratory Test Information

Lezlee Koch, MT(ASCP)

April 5, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

In 2003, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) identified the utilization of information technology as one of five essential competencies all healthcare practitioners need to deliver quality healthcare.1 With greater...

Interprofessional Teamwork–The Key to Safe Patient Care

Susan Morris, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM

March 1, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Healthcare today is increasingly complex. Expert clinical knowledge is not enough to ensure effective patient care. Strong communication skills, respect, and good connections among team members are critical to ...

Developing Competency in Patient-Centered Care

Jennifer Dawson, MHA, DLM(ASCP)CMSLS

February 2, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Serving the patient has always been at the heart of clinical laboratory medicine, however the Institute of Medicine has identified improving patient-centered care as a key competency to improve healthcare quali...

Medical Laboratory Science and Healthcare Equity

Cheryl Caskey, M.A., MLS(ASCP)CM, SBBCM

January 5, 2016

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Many cultural groups, including gays and lesbians, disabled individuals, individuals with faiths unfamiliar to a practitioner, lower socioeconomic groups, ethnic minorities, and immigrant groups may receive no ...

Patient-Centricity: Staying True to the Purpose of the Lab

Jennifer Dawson, MHA, DLM(ASCP)CMSLS

December 8, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Being patient-centered, one of the Institute of Medicine’s 6 Quality Aims, is defined as respecting the patient’s culture, social context and specific needs as well as involving the patient in decision making a...

ASCLS: Improving Timeliness in the Laboratory

Stacy Walz, PhD, MS, MT(ASCP)

November 3, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

“The Right Test on the Right Patient at the Right Time”…how often have you seen or heard this mantra? It’s a goal all laboratory professionals should have! The Institute of Medicine (IOM) lists ‘timeliness’ a...

It matters to me because its very important to know your conditions.

2019-10-07T21:08:38-05:00

It matters to me because its very important to know your conditions.

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Helped doctor save my life when I had a heart attack @ 47 years old.

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2019-10-07T21:39:46-05:00

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Helped doctor save my life when I had a heart attack @ 47 years old.

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Without us to run all these tests on patients, the doctors would never know how to cure them. Especially in...

Jean Morin, MLT(ASCP)Racine,WI

2019-10-07T21:46:37-05:00

Jean Morin, MLT(ASCP)Racine,WI

Without us to run all these tests on patients, the doctors would never know how to cure them. Especially in microbiology, you need a tech that can think outside the box a lot of the time. A Sherlock Holmes.

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Patients are our highest priority. We give the best and most accurate information to the doctors and nursing staff to...

Joan GreuleNewark, NY

2019-10-07T21:09:09-05:00

Joan GreuleNewark, NY

Patients are our highest priority. We give the best and most accurate information to the doctors and nursing staff to ensure the best outcome we can. Our patients become our families in need.

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Without our test results, diagnosis is guessing.

Angela BWisconsin

2019-10-07T21:40:07-05:00

Angela BWisconsin

Without our test results, diagnosis is guessing.

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