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2005 CAP TODAY Article Index
2005 CAP TODAY Article Index
(PDF, 191 K)
Cover Story
Check please—getting paid for your work
With Aon, seven more ways to play it safe
Not so fast—relaxing transfusion triggers
Cancer registry project passes medterm exam
CPT—what lies ahead
Lab envoys find face value in floor visits
Opening up the throttle on POC-hospital connectivity
Tissue issue—honing FDA oversight of practices
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic
Abstracts
Letters
Q&A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: LIS
Survey (PDF, 834 K)
Amyloidosis hiding in plain
sight
Collecting
the first edition—Blood center error reports
For complex
coag disorders, plots thicken
Connective issue:
Linking POC with wireless hospitals
Laboratory
diagnosis of celiac disease
Monitoring
antiplatelet agents
New insurance
broker nationwide, locally savvy
A pathologist
on the frontlines in New Orleans
Pulling waived
tests back to safety’s shore
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic
Abstracts
Letters
Q&A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: LIS
Survey (PDF, 834 K)
Border patrol:
MRSA admission screening
"One of
the most challenging PCR tests to develop"
Patient ID
systems offer smart start
Coming
soon—unannounced lab inspections
On the Pap front: one
victory, but a skirmish ahead
Six pathologists
celebrated for stellar service
Seeing big picture
yields big lab improvements
A game plan for filling
the medical technologist ranks
Cancer registry project passes midterm exam
Make no mistake, "perfect"
practice can be costly
CAP annual stated
meeting minutes
Your CPT Questions
CAP elections
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Letters
Q&A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: "Positive
patient identification: more than a double check" (PDF,
564 K)
Making a valid point about HPV tests
If DNA
doesn’t add up, array CGH steps in
Coming up safe, not short,
on platelets
After a merger, a new view of
telepathology’s role
Higher expense RVUs in ’06
fee schedule proposal
Catching ID errors where it
counts—in the lab
Back on the books: Controlling
Medicare medical necessity write-offs
Commission raises bar for inspectors, inspections
Jump-start inspections by working the Web
Q & A
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstract
Letters
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Blood
bank information systems (PDF, 646 K)
IHC, FISH still sharing HER2 spotlight
Rich niche: AP outreach blossoming
Labs stepping into the stream of Lean
In so many words, lab reports on the mend
"There is no turning back"—is
AFIP facing demise?
Your CPT Questions
Fair catch: What to consider—and
why—before agreeing to be responsible for health fair testing
CAP Scan
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstract
Letters
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: POC
chemistry analyzers (PDF, 781 K)
For digoxin,
simple fix to stubborn problem
IMA
lines up for place in cardiac triage
Adding RFID layer to blood safety
loop
How to meet Medicare’s teaching
physician billing compliance rules
The job is yours—but, can
you keep it?
Labs shaking hands with molecular
middleman
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstract
Letters
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Chemistry
analyzers (PDF, 1,123 K)
Survey of Instruments: Blood
gas analyzers (PDF, 983 K)
Facts catching up to fuss in
PGx
A
dozen first steps to national quality measures for labs
Disaster planning: Keeping
your blood supply high, dry, and flowing
Innovations in Pathology
Job seekers, prepare for
landing
POC connectivity takes
hold
Western swing—updates
on cancer, errors, more
Billing
and coding in cytopathology: Deciphering the alphanumeric soup
Measuring the significance of
field validation in the CAP Interlaboratory Comparison Program: How good
are the experts?
Performance of SurePath liquid-based
cytology
Pitfalls in salivary gland fine-needle
aspiration cytology
Using liquid-based cervical cytology
specimens to test for Chlamydia
Fine-needle aspiration of
pulmonary hamartoma
Cytopathology at CAP ’05
We need a few good slides
Cytotechnology
Your CPT Questions
Q & A President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstract
Letters
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Immunoassay
analyzers (PDF, 834 K)
Two sides
of the coin on respiratory viruses
Glucose
testing variability and the need for an expert oversight committee
Playing it safe—new book
takes aim at AP errors
Looking for an equivalent quality
control winner
D-dimer testing and reporting
for the diagnosis of VTE: Proficiency testing finds too-high cutoffs and
more
Rapid transit—getting
data to public health agencies
For HIV genotyping, plenty of growing
pains
Digging its way in: lab digital
imaging
Commission
forges ahead on many fronts
With
PT failures, spinning straw into gold
Queries
and comments
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstract
Letters
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Physician
office-lab links (PDF, 834 K)
Groping for
ground zero in cancers
On
microchips, directing a cast of thousands
D-dimer dance card fills up
with new tests, uses
HCV testing swaps high-low
for yes-no
New editor in chief turning
the pages at Archives
Lab diagnosis and evaluation
of treatment for HCV
From hunt to hire—tips
for landing that just-right job
Hand stand—a look at
manual blood smear reviews
Your CPT Questions
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series:
Billing information systems (PDF, 439
K)
Survey of Instruments: Glucose
analyzers (PDF, 551 K)
Lymphoma
microarrays stir up debate
Producing
high-quality samples
In right setting, POC testing can
be kid stuff
Shortfall, not windfall,
greets PT/INR coverage
Seeing is believing as AP labs
flip digital switch
Office labs riding the waves in
testing trends
Coping with the errors in
Medicare’s new Internet-only policy manuals
Dollars and sense add up for PSA
cooperative
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: POC
coagulation analyzers (PDF, 503 K)
ICUs tighten
belts on blood glucose levels
Clearing
a path for new cardiac markers
On client billing, a voice
in the wilderness
Maryland lab case—
little to learn, lots to remember
Pathology CME—moving from
general to specific
Your CPT Questions
New products are encountering
a market ripe for digital imaging
Pilot points way to speedier
cancer surveillance
CLA
underscores consistency and accountability
Queries and comments
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Anatomic
pathology systems (PDF, 739 K)
System Review Series: Laboratory
automation systems and workcells (PDF, 907 K)
Circulating
tumor cell tests—boon or bust?
Liability insurance
to return with CAP’s new broker
For AFIP, real-time telepathology
goes far a field
Medicare fees good news, despite
blows to flow
Identifying, testing for,
and treating Bordetella pertussis
Out of joint-OIG takes dim view
of pod lab setup
Past now present with cytology
PT
Test tube interference shows
"chink in armor"
Needle points: The
lab’s role in endoscopic ultrasound-guided FNA
The upsides and downsides of
state licensure for cytotechnologists
Recommended Reading
Removing dots from cytology slides—liability
issues
President’s
Column
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Coagulation
analyzers (PDF, 906 K)
Survey of Instruments: Hematology
analyzers—efficiency Hematology analyzers—efficiency through automation
- December 2005 (PDF, 834 K)
System Review Series: Only
time will tell, but LIS experts offer a forecast - November 2005(PDF,
834 K)
System Review Series: Positive
patient identification: more than a double check - October 2005 (PDF,
564 K)
System Review Series : Attention to errors
linked to usefulness of wares - September 2005 (PDF,
646 K)
Survey of Instruments: Smaller, but sophisticated
- August 2005 (PDF, 781 K)
Survey of Instruments: Good tidings—the
latest in chemistry analyzers - July 2005 (PDF,
1,123 K)
Survey of Instruments: Labs want
it all, and blood gas vendors oblige - July 2005
(PDF, 983 K)
Survey of Instruments: Immunoassay
Immunoassay marrkeett oovveerrfflloowiing wiitth cchangee - June 2005
(PDF, 834K)
System Review Series: Linking software
making gains and foraying into domains - May 2005 (PDF,
834 K)
System Review Series: Be software savvy:
Buy wisely to bill accurately - April 2005 (PDF,
439 K)
Survey of Instruments: For glucose systems,
greater For glucose systems, greater accuracy and safety - April 2005
(PDF, 551K)
Survey of Instruments: Coagulation
Analyzers (Point of care, self-monitoring) - March 2005 (PDF,
503 K)
System Review Series: Faltering feature:
tumor reporting - February 2005 (PDF, 739K)
System Review Series: Laboratory
automation systems & workcells - February 2005 (PDF,
907 K)
Survey of Instruments: Balancing
cost and capabilities of coag analyzers - January 2005 (PDF,
906 K)
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