Quality Care

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...

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

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...

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2019-10-07T21:06:21-04:00

Opiyo EricKenya, Kisumu

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Kerry Schmuff CIT II

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2019-10-07T21:38:46-04:00

Kerry Schmuff CIT II

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Terri DawPittsburgh, PA

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2019-10-07T21:45:21-04:00

Terri DawPittsburgh, PA

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I am a Spanish Clinical Laboratory Technician and I think that our work matters because lab tests are an essential...

IsraelCuenca (Spain)

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

IsraelCuenca (Spain)

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2019-10-07T21:39:03-04:00

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