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Why Should I Care About Benchmarking in Healthcare?

June 19, 2023

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Uncategorized

How do I compare and stack up? Are we a better team, friend or athlete than our competitors are? It’s human nature to compare ourselves to others in almost all aspects of our lives. The advent of social medi...

Lab Testing Matters: Lab Testing Takes Center Stage for HAI Surveillance

Benjamin D. Galvan, MLS(ASCP), CIC, CPH

December 2, 2022

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page

Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) plays a vital role in the daily activities of infection prevention (IP). Though the scope is vast, one of the most important is the role MLS plays in the surveillance of healthc...

NIPT – The Pros, the Cons, and How It Affects Patient Safety

Brandy D. Gunsolus

April 11, 2022

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) has exploded over the last 5-7 years, transforming an industry seemingly in the blink of an eye. But what exactly is it and how is reality different from the NIPT testing ex...

Non-Invasive Monitoring of Transplant Recipients Using Next-Generation Sequencing

Rose Hanna, DCLS, MS, MLS (ASCP)CM

April 11, 2022

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

Tissue biopsy is the gold standard for assessing allograft rejection and managing treatment in solid organ transplant. However, this approach requires an invasive procedure that is expensive, requires advanced ...

Telehealth and the Impact to the Clinical Laboratory Amid a Pandemic

Courtney Shrader, MSHS, MLS(ASCP)cm, CPHQ, Katrina (Kate) T. Moreau, MAT, MLS (ASCP)cm and Gerardo Ramos, Ph.D., MS, MLS(ASCP)cm, F-ABFT

December 1, 2020

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care, Uncategorized

It is 9:00 am and you are getting ready for your medical appointment scheduled for 9:15 am. The 15-minute lead time to your appointment can only mean two things 1) you live or work 5 minutes away from the phys...

Laboratories Build Resiliency Amidst a Pandemic

Pamela Meadows, Ed.D., MT(ASCP), Brooke Whitaker, DCLS, MLS(ASCP)cm and Carolyn Sabady, PBT (ASCP)

November 23, 2020

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

As clinical laboratories are pressed to increase testing capacity for SARS-CoV-2, one key question looms.  How do we secure the equipment and supplies needed to meet testing demands during this global pandemic?...

Overview of Testing Methodologies for COVID-19

Rose Hanna, DCLS, MS, MLS (ASCP)CM and Stacy Walz, PhD, MS, MT(ASCP)

October 7, 2020

ASCP Patient Champions, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious respiratory virus caused by the novel (new) strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). Symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure...

A Team Approach to Diagnosis

Brandy D. Gunsolus

August 25, 2020

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein Many individuals in healthcare have now read the National Academies of Sc...

Improving Diagnosis in Health Care: Improving Patient Engagement and Health Care Professional Education and Training in Diagnosis

Billie Ketelsen, MS, MLS(ASCP)MB

August 4, 2020

ASCLS: Patient Safety & The Laboratory, Featured, Home Page, Quality Care

Throughout healthcare there has been a push to include all health care personnel as part of the diagnostic team, along with patients and their families. Team-based healthcare has shown to provide better outcome...

ASCP Patient Champions Linda and Tiffany

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June 26, 2020

ASCP Patient Champions, Featured, Home Page

A coronavirus nasal swab test was confirmation to Linda, a family practice physician, that she had COVID-19. She decided to get tested after developing a high fever, chills, and a cough. She stayed home, self- ...

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

IsraelCuenca (Spain)

Lab Testing Matters

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

IsraelCuenca (Spain)

I am a Spanish Clinical Laboratory Technician and I think that our work matters because lab tests are an essential complimentary tool for doctors in the diagnosis, prevention, treatment and monitoring of illness and health. Also our job contributes and collaborates in the research and new findings in the biomedical sciences. Medical practice and patient care is not possible nowadays without our daily work in the different areas of clinical and research laboratories.

https://www.labtestingmatters.org/testimonials/essential-complimentary-tool/

it saves and improves quality of life

@arriannariffvia Twitter

Lab Testing Matters

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

@arriannariffvia Twitter

it saves and improves quality of life

https://www.labtestingmatters.org/testimonials/it-saves-and-improves-quality-of-life/

In the big picture of medicine, lab results assists with the majority of medical decisions, but has least impact on...

Kym TuckerNashville, TN

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:45:44-04:00

Kym TuckerNashville, TN

In the big picture of medicine, lab results assists with the majority of medical decisions, but has least impact on health dollars.

https://www.labtestingmatters.org/testimonials/the-big-picture/

Lab testing matters because if done safely and efficiently a criminal could be convicted or a person could be that...

Adrienne TuttleLaurel

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:07:53-04:00

Adrienne TuttleLaurel

Lab testing matters because if done safely and efficiently a criminal could be convicted or a person could be that much closer to finding out what ails them.

https://www.labtestingmatters.org/testimonials/testing-matters-because/

because I have a hand in helping others!

@harden315via Twitter

Lab Testing Matters

2019-10-07T21:39:21-04:00

@harden315via Twitter

because I have a hand in helping others!

https://www.labtestingmatters.org/testimonials/because-i-have-a-hand-in-helping-others/

Lab Testing Matters