Quality Care

Quality Improvement: The Process to Improve Patient Safety

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...

In search for the soul of healthcare

Tammy Zinmeister

December 3, 2015

Quality Care

Experiencing the joy of being healthy plays a central role in modern life. Health improves the quality of our lives and the lives of those we love. I certainly don’t need to explain to you, how advances in s...

The True Cost of Quality

Posted by Site Administrator

November 9, 2015

Quality Care

Patient access to quality healthcare services relies, in large part, on an adequate supply of well-trained allied health professionals. While there are thousands of medical laboratory jobs available nationwide,...

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...

Improving Efficiency in the Laboratory

Stacy Walz, PhD, MS, MT(ASCP)

October 6, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Anything that is wasteful or has to be repeated is considered inefficient. As healthcare costs continue to skyrocket, it is no surprise that the Institute of Medicine has made ‘efficiency’ one of the six Quali...

Without testing there is little to discuss with a physician other than symptoms, feelings, or best guesses. I can do...

MBBRhode Island

2019-10-07T21:09:37-05:00

MBBRhode Island

Without testing there is little to discuss with a physician other than symptoms, feelings, or best guesses. I can do that with my husband.

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I work in a small critical access hospital in rural NW Iowa. The providers depend on our lab work in...

Brenda M Day MLS (ASCP)Iowa

2019-10-07T21:40:39-05:00

Brenda M Day MLS (ASCP)Iowa

I work in a small critical access hospital in rural NW Iowa. The providers depend on our lab work in diagnosis and treatment of all our patients. Our lab results often impact whether or not a patient can be treated successfully at our hospital or should be transferred to a large medical facility. Whether you are large or small, lab results need to be spot on and your quality control excellent. We matter.

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the physicians rely on our results in order to give the patients proper meds and treatments

Colleen P. Caldwell

2019-10-07T21:47:21-05:00

Colleen P. Caldwell

the physicians rely on our results in order to give the patients proper meds and treatments

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because is the bed rock of solutions

Nigeria

2019-10-07T21:10:14-05:00

Nigeria

because is the bed rock of solutions

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My 20 yo son was recently seen in the ER with back pain. A CT was sent off to be...

Jodi FrigonGlasgow, MT

2019-10-07T21:41:12-05:00

Jodi FrigonGlasgow, MT

My 20 yo son was recently seen in the ER with back pain. A CT was sent off to be read and took 40 minutes. Because of a quick urinalysis, they were able to treat him for kidney stones.

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