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Improving Diagnosis in Medicine: Introduction & Overview

October 23, 2019

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Reports published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NAS), are the foundation of research on medical errors1 and how to improve patient s...

INFORMATICS COMPETENCIES NECESSARY TO DELIVER QUALITY CARE

Andrea Pitkus, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM and Susie Zanto MPH MLS ASCP

April 3, 2019

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Can you imagine any healthcare professional practicing quality care today without the use of informatics? Medical informatics, as defined by the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is, ‘the interdis...

Interdisciplinary Teams Reduce Errors and Improve Outcomes

Brooke Whitaker, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)cm and Courtney Shrader, MSHS, MLS(ASCP)cm, CPHQ

March 5, 2019

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Improving patient care and reducing diagnostic errors has been a hot topic since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err is Human1 and Crossing the Quality Chasm2 in 2000 and 2001 respectively. Then in...

Dr. Daly Discusses…Choosing Wisely

John Daly, MD

February 21, 2019

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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

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February 19, 2019

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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

Brandy Gunsolus

February 12, 2019

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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

Stacy Walz, PhD, MS, MT(ASCP)

January 4, 2019

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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

John Daly, MD

December 20, 2018

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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

John Daly, MD

December 18, 2018

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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

John Daly, MD

October 25, 2018

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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...

Every tube / specimen is a patient with a suspected illness in need of a diagnosis and appropriate course of...

G. Alexander BurnellJamaica, W.I.

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:36:13-04:00

G. Alexander BurnellJamaica, W.I.

Every tube / specimen is a patient with a suspected illness in need of a diagnosis and appropriate course of treatment. Without our adept analytical and interpretive skills, the clinical physician would be at a loss in providing the appropriate care and course of treatment. It is even more critical as in my case where you’re one of only two skilled personnel in respect to certain diagnostic procedures (Flow Cytometry for the immunophenotyping of leukemia’s).

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It is vital to finding a diagnosis.

Ginette HuartVancouver, BC, Canada

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:42:51-04:00

Ginette HuartVancouver, BC, Canada

It is vital to finding a diagnosis.

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Without us, they wouldn’t know what to do.

Adriana Metz, MT(ASCP)Illinois

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:49:23-04:00

Adriana Metz, MT(ASCP)Illinois

Without us, they wouldn’t know what to do.

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It is the eyes with which a doctor manage to follow a patient’s evolution of a disease.

Prof. A. K. MuddathirSudan

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:36:41-04:00

Prof. A. K. MuddathirSudan

It is the eyes with which a doctor manage to follow a patient’s evolution of a disease.

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The best quality health care is only possible it laboratory testing is done by professionals who have the ability to...

Shelley TappCanada

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:43:24-04:00

Shelley TappCanada

The best quality health care is only possible it laboratory testing is done by professionals who have the ability to recognize peculiarities in test results to ensure that the correct result is acted on by the physician who will administer treatment based on the laboratory findings.

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