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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...

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 ...

Educating Others: A Necessary Component of Quality Patient Care

Brandy Gunsolus

June 15, 2018

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“All health professionals should be educated to deliver patient-centered care as members of an interdisciplinary team, emphasizing evidence-based practice, quality improvement approaches, and informatics.” – In...

Thinking Outside the Box for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Jennifer Dawson, MHA, DLM(ASCP)CMSLS

May 16, 2018

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Laboratories are constantly seeking to improve their services for the benefit of their patients, but are usually under significant budgetary constraints. Sometimes all that is required to improve patient safety...

Preanalytical Variables–Critical for Appropriate Diagnosis

Lezlee Koch, MT(ASCP)

February 6, 2017

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The laboratory total testing process begins with the preanalytical phase and concludes with the postanalytical phase. Due to improvements in analytical techniques and effective quality programs, most errors no...

ASCLS: Enhancing Education in the Diagnostic Process

Posted by Site Administrator

December 8, 2016

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It’s no secret that arriving at a definitive diagnosis in medicine is a complex process involving many “moving parts”. There is no “cookie cutter” or “one-size-fits-all” approach that can be applied, and very ...

ASCLS: Emphasizing Teamwork to Improve Diagnostic Accuracy

Pamela Meadows, Ed.D., MT(ASCP)

November 10, 2016

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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

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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...

Millennials Redefine Quality in Healthcare

Irwin Rothenberg MBA, MS, MLS(ASCP)

September 15, 2016

Quality Care

The impact of millennials’ interpretations and expectations of quality service from the healthcare profession in general, and of laboratories in particular, continues to grow with each passing year. Now the l...

Improving Patient Safety–Employing Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice

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

June 9, 2016

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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...

It narrows down the doctors’ guess to the specific cause of illness

Martin koomeKenya

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:34:05-04:00

Martin koomeKenya

It narrows down the doctors’ guess to the specific cause of illness

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When only four years old, I developed a life-threatening infection that was treated effectively only after being tested against multiple...

KathyNorth Carolina

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:42:32-04:00

KathyNorth Carolina

When only four years old, I developed a life-threatening infection that was treated effectively only after being tested against multiple antibiotics in a clinical lab. I now help women reach their goal of medical school while teaching in an undergrad college. My colleague, another biology professor, survived meningitis as an infant in part due to the testing performed in a clinical lab. THANKS!

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It helps clinicians in patient management and prognosis.

SigeyNAIROBI

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:49:06-04:00

SigeyNAIROBI

It helps clinicians in patient management and prognosis.

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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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