We blew it - Great partnerships are going to fix it

Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2005, Pages

  Laessig, Ronald H ^a,b   Ehrmeyer, Sharon S ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b WISCONSIN STATE LABORATORY OF HYGIENE   (United States)

^c Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ^*

^d Clinical Laboratory Science/Medicine Technology Program

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; EDITORIAL; FUTUROLOGY; GOOD LABORATORY PRACTICE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATHOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLICATION;

EID: 25844443672     PISSN: 00075027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

References (8)

1. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Medicare, Medicaid, and CLIA Programs; Laboratory Requirements Relating to quality Systems and Certain Personnel Qualifications. Final Rule. Fed Register 2003;16:3639-3714.
2. Appendix C, Survey Procedures and Interpretive Guidelines for Laboratories and Laboratory Services. Available at: http://www.cms.gov/clia/ appendc.asp. Accessed August 29, 2005.
3. U.S. Department of health and Human Services. Medicare, Medicaid and CLIA programs: Regulations implementing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Final rule. Fed Regist 1992; 57:7002-186.
4. National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Science. 2005. Available at: http://www.naacls.org Accessed August 9, 2005.
5. U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Public Health Service. Medicare, Center for Disease Control, 1967. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967. Part F of Title III of the Public Health Service Act. Sec. 353.
6. Westgard JO, Darcy TP. The truth about quality: Medical usefulness and analytical reliability of laboratory tests. Clinica Chimica Acta. 2004;346:3-11.
7. Public Law 100-578, Section 353 Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 263a) October 31, 1988.
8. Laessig RH, Ehrmeyer SS. Quality: The Next Six Months. Clin Chem. 1997;43:903-907.