Tagged Patient Safety

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...

ASCLS: Improving Diagnosis in Health Care from the Lab’s Perspective

ASCLS Patient Safety Committee

September 28, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Last week, on September 22nd, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) announced the publication of its report, Improving Diagnosis in Health, a follow-up to To Err is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm. Improving D...

ASCLS: Ensuring Safe Laboratory Services

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

August 4, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

Healthcare needs to be safe, effective, efficient, timely, patient-centered and equitable. Each of these attributes is one of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Quality Aims, and each describes one component of...

Medical Laboratory Professionals, Improving Patient Safety: An Introduction

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

July 6, 2015

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Quality Care

It has been fifteen years since the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published To Err is Human1 and Crossing the Quality Chasm2 alerting healthcare professionals and consumers that patients were unintentionally bein...

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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