Dr. Daly Discusses…Choosing Wisely
In 2014, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Foundation conducted a survey to determine physician views on overuse of medical services in the US that showed 75 percent of the responding physicians in...
Caveat Emptor—Buyer Beware! Pregnancy Devices that Give False Negative Results Still on the Market
We have previously blogged about false negative urine qualitative hCG tests in both point-of-care (POC) hospital devices and over-the-counter (OTC) devices due to the presence of high concentrations of hCG beta...
Evidence-Based Practices in Laboratory Test Development: The Need for Clinical Utility Evidence
By Brandy D. Gunsolus, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee Within the healthcare professional competencies outlined by the 2003 report “Health Professions Education – A Bridge to Quality”, effe...
Healthcare Competencies Necessary to Deliver Quality Care – INTRODUCTION
Some years back, members of our committee wrote articles for Lab Testing Matters that revolved around the six aims of quality healthcare and the five competencies all healthcare professionals should possess to ...
Dr. Daly Discusses…Legionnaires Disease
A few months ago an article was published in JAMA asking the question “Why are Legionnaires Disease Diagnoses becoming More Common in the US?” In this installment, Dr. Daly discusses the several interesting are...
Dr Daly Discusses Audit Focus on Medical Necessity
One of the major areas reviewed during an audit of a laboratory performing urine drug screening is documentation of medical necessity of the testing. In this installment, Dr. Daly discusses the criteria to esta...
Dr. Daly Discusses…Adulterant Testing
In drug testing of pain management patients, it is important that a valid sample is collected in order to determine compliance with appropriate use of prescribed drugs and to identify the use of other non-presc...
Dr. Daly Discusses…Hepatitis C Virus Infection
It is estimated that more than 4 million individuals have been infected with the Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in the U.S., and from that number, some 75% are infected at any given time. In the latest installment of ...
Dr. Daly Discusses…Balance Billing
At the recent Executive War College presented by the Dark Intelligence Group, there was a roundtable presentation featuring four attorneys active in laboratory legal affairs discussing “Current Issues in Clinic...
Rabies: History, myths and diagnosis on Outbreak News This Week
Interview with Rodney E. Rohde, Ph.D on Outbreak News Today. Hosted and authored by Robert Herriman and re-published here with permission.
Rabies has been a topic several times on the radio show where I looked...