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    Real-world factors create complications during method evaluation studies: What to know and how to address them

    Melanie Pollan PhD, MT (ASCP)
    Oct. 28, 2024
    Medical laboratory scientists perform method verification to confirm manufacturers’ specifications for new instruments and assays are met prior to actively reporting patient...
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    Bio-Rad announces European launch of Unity Next Peer QC

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    April 11, 2024
    Labs new to Bio-Rad’s suite of QC data management products can experience Unity Next Peer QC with guided support and training from the Bio-Rad team.
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    Quality of care for patients who call 911 varies greatly across the United States, study finds

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    March 8, 2024
    Mount Sinai research could lead to more consistency and safety measure.
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    A holistic approach to error prevention in the clinical laboratory

    Stephen Bishop, MBA, MS, CLS, MLS(ASCP)CM, CPHQ
    Dec. 18, 2023
    In the world of clinical laboratory testing, precision and accuracy are paramount because laboratory results can have a critical impact on patient safety, so preventing errors...
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    Why quality matters

    Ian Wilkinson PhD, DClinChem, CSCC(Cert), MBA
    Oct. 18, 2023
    Quality is the mantra of medical laboratory professionals, but what is quality? What does it really mean? Why does it matter? Isn’t quality control (QC) good enough? Isn’t it ...
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    Bio-Rad launches second in series of educational quality control workbooks

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    July 20, 2023
    Bio-Rad launched a workbook series that offers P.A.C.E. credits.
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    Dear API Abby

    Danielle Casey, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM
    July 13, 2023
    The American Proficiency Institute (API), a global leader in proficiency testing programs, is dedicated to improving the accuracy and efficiency of clinical laboratory testing...
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    Why a real-time QC reporting system is critical in the modern lab

    Quality Systems Team at Bio-Rad Laboratories
    March 27, 2023
    Quality control (QC) remains one of the most important tasks of the medical laboratory to ensure the reliability and accuracy of reported patient results. Whenever results are...
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    For emerging infectious diseases, reliable controls support QC efforts

    Erica Frew
    Feb. 20, 2023
    The spate of recent public health crises, beginning with COVID-19 and including the mpox outbreak that began last year, underscored the importance of quality control measures ...
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    The focus of quality control strategies should be on patient outcomes, not technology

    John Yundt-Pacheco MSCS
    Nov. 22, 2022
    Laboratories use quality control (QC) procedures to assure the reliability of the test results they produce and report. According to ISO 15189, the International Organization ...
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    More than cost: The true impact of errors

    Andy Quintenz
    April 20, 2022
    The cost of errors and its antithesis, the cost of quality, is often written about in terms of financial impact to medical laboratories and the healthcare system. This article...

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    Ideal layout for a molecular laboratory to reduce contamination events. This layout ensures separation of clean reagents and equipment from exogenous DNA sources (i.e., samples and/or amplicon containing material).
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    Document review, competency, proficiency testing, and correlation testing are among the standards cited most often during on-site surveys at clinical labs.
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    Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center began an aggressive real-time blood utilization program in July 2016.
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