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2007 CAP TODAY Article Index (PDF, 183)
Cover Story
Lynch syndrome testing—when and how?
Feature Stories
Using markers for a head start on heart risk
ST2 in the ED: Will it nail cardiac risk?
Ask SAM: How well do you do on HER2 testing?
In AP/radiology venture, seeing is believing
CAPScan
Why we roll our eyes at shows like ‘CSI’
Pathologists’ reaction to ‘Ready, set, action!’
Aiming to ease lab labor, cost, TAT pressures (PDF, 211K)
Clickable credit, competency, more; In checklists, changes of all shapes and sizes
Point-by-point checklist for POC testing
Queries and Comments
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Letters
Q&A - Latest Queries and Comments
Interested in submitting a question?
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Hematology analyzers (PDF, 185 K)
Cover Story
IT challenges don’t drown the drum of digital
Feature Stories
Watching the bone marrow story unfold
Heart-to-heart discussion of test’s value, use
Mastering MRSA and more in latest CAP Surveys
Ear to the ground, lab insider spells out the future
In managing sepsis, the uphill battle continues
Star performers celebrated at CAP ’07
Time to shelve your RFP for an RFI—here’s
why
Selecting an LIS? What to seek and what
to skip
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
New CAP officers take their places
CAP annual stated meeting minutes
Q&A
CAPScan
CPT Questions
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Laboratory information systems (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Cover Story
Catching, tracking, and tackling TRALI
Feature Stories
Automated histology—many labs, many tales
Multiplexing—assays with multiple personalities
Wireless glucose results—the latest in real-time data
Two peas in a pod: digital AP, radiology
Tilting at perfect timing for QC
With AP specimen identification, the hero is zero
The next step: bringing autoverification into the blood bank
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
CAPScan
Letters
Q&A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Blood bank information systems Survey (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Cover Story
Putting molecular testing in motion
Feature Stories
In AP/radiology
venture, seeing is believing
Pricing slugfest—can labs outlast
blows?
Tough tactics for practice
management woes
View master—an expert eyes digital
pathology’s future
How and why pathologists fail
as managers
In Memoriam: Dennis B. Dorsey,
MD 1912-2007
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: An array of possibilities (PDF, 118K)
Cover Story
Showing heart patients the way home
Feature Stories
Technologies
designing the "futurescape" of anatomic pathology
In Florida case, court makes
PC billing stick
Brewing a high-octane laboratory,
step by step
Blood gas analyzers—the
old and the new
Survey of Instruments: For
syphilis screening, a new reflex testing algorithm
Survey of Instruments: New
tests, sensors, firmware for blood gas analyzers
Special Section: Laboratory Accreditation News
Inspection
packets made more user-friendly
Activity
menus: soon to be online and real time
Queries
and Comments
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: In vitro blood gas analyzers (PDF, 129 K)
Cover Story
In diagnoses, a tale of two specialties
Feature Stories
Shop talk: In acquiring lab insturments, the stakes have gotten higherFast times at the front end—speeding up ED tests
PCR and ELISA adaptations—will they fly?
PT approach for nonregulated tests sets higher
In a tough market, why Sunrise Medical shines
Automation nudges urinalysis into spotlight
System Review Series: Put your money where your money is: choosing the right billing/AR system
Survey of Instruments: For chemistry analyzers, a lot in the works for ’08
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Billing/accounts receivable systems (PDF, 51K)
Survey of Instruments: Chemistry analyzers (for mid/high volume laboratories) (PDF, 144K)
Cover Story
With new ACOG guidelines, step wisely
Feature Stories
Something
for everyone at AACC show
Common questions, uncommon answers
IVD, imaging firms peg fortunes
on consolidation
Handing off critical results
fore things turn critical
New “international face”
for SNOMED terminology
Credit clever middleware
for spike in labs’ productivity
Riffing on RFID: tracking a technology
high-flier
Immunoassay marketplace reflects
need for integration
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
CAPScan
Survey of Instruments: Automated immunoassay analyzers (PDF, 1.8 MB)
Cover Story
How labs divvy up molecular testing
Feature Stories
Taking a harder line on blood transfusionsIn colorectal cancer, a lymph node debate
Of clouds and silver linings: reflections on Martis v. Pekin
Landing a new LIS
Best practices for labs? CDC hunts for answers
BNP test utilization in the ED—it’s not what you think
Your CPT Questions
Survey of Instruments: What vendors are up to in the POC and self-testing coag
System Review Series: How to pick PO—lab links that are free of kinks
PAP/NGC Program Review
What is the
role of fine needle aspiration in evaluating thyroid nodules?
Pap PT appeals—how
the process works
Queries and Comments
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Interested
in submitting a question?
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Coagulation analyzers ((PDF, 11.8 MB)
System Review Series: Physician office-laboratory links software (PDF, 775 K)
Cover Story
In breast cancer diagnoses, don’t balk at talk
Feature Stories
Time
to cast a wider net in fragile X testing?
Baby steps to an iffy end:
pay for performance
Melding humans and hi-tech
stops ID errors cold
Plugging the gaps in PSA testing
In send-out snafus, it’s right
place, wrong kind
Survey of Instruments: Glucose test
frequency spawns new analyzer needs
Special Section: Laboratory Accreditation News
Matching
labs for inspection now faster, more objective
A
simpler, better assignment system
Queries
and Comments
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
CAPScan
Survey of Instruments: Bedside glucose testing systems (PDF, 182 K)
Cover Story
Breast cancer dilemma: Adjuvant chemo—can new assays help?
Feature Stories
Advanced
coag, deep in the heart of Texas
Digital diagnoses—the shape
of things to come
Like it or not, AP’s future
will be digitally driven
(A)topic of concern: omitting specific
IgE tests
All in one and one for all:
multiplex testing
Your CPT Questions
System Review Series: The lab automation
survey demystified
System Review Series: AP systems’
3 most important features, ROI, and more
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Laboratory automation systems & workcells (PDF, 285 MB)
System Review Series: Anatomic pathology computer systems (PDF, 719 K)
Cover Story
Untangling thyroid problems, test by test
Feature Stories
Middleware
sparks renewed ROI interest
Indian blood bankers soaking
up U.S. know-how
Digital pathology adoption?
Expect it in niches
Foundation conference on
AP technology
Simplifying send-outs—what
experts advise
Why ’07 reimbursement rates
are down six percent
Prodding CMS on
warfarin home monitoring
Regular Features
President’s
Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
System Review Series: Middleware Systems (PDF, 662 K)
Cover Story
Giving vWD its due, one test at a time
Feature Stories
Swab story—getting the most from wound cultures
What lies ahead in cancer genetics, epigenetics
Good idea, bad law: requiring eGFR test
Your CPT questions
In CPT 2007, something new for nearly all
In coagulation, the push continues for more and better
PAP/NGC Program Review
“Retrophobia” and
the 5-year retrospective review
Online: gynecologic and nongyn educational
programs
Reality check for POC testing—making
it work
Give and you shall receive
Vaccines for prevening cervical cancer—where
we are now
Understanding HPV testing’s
place in primary screening
A digital slide program in FNAs
Share your ’06 cervical cytology
statistics
Enrollment tips for ’07 Pap
PT
ASC-H: HPV data and histologic outcomes
Regular Features
President’s
Column
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Survey of Instruments: Coagulation Analyzers (PDF, 880 KB)
Survey Library
System Review Series: Laboratory information systems - November 2007 (PDF, 1.2 MB)System Review Series: Blood bank information systems Survey - October 2007 (PDF, 2.3 MB)
Survey of Instruments: An array of possibilities - September 2007 (PDF, 118 KB)
Survey of Instruments: In vitro blood gas analyzers - August 2007 (PDF, 129 KB)
Survey of Instruments: Billing/accounts receivable systems - July 2007 (PDF, 51KB)
Survey of Instruments: Chemistry analyzers (for mid/high volume laboratories) - July 2007 (PDF, 144 KB)
Survey of Instruments: Automated immunoassay analyzers - June 2007 (PDF, 1.8 MB)
Survey of Instruments: Coagulation analyzers - May 2007 (PDF, 11.8 MB)
System Review Series: Physician office-laboratory links software - May 2007 (PDF, 775 KB)
Survey of Instruments: Bedside glucose testing systems - April 2007 (PDF, 182 KB)
System Review Series: Laboratory automation systems & workcells - March 2007 (PDF, 285 MB)
System Review Series: Anatomic pathology computer systems - March 2007 (PDF, 719 KB)
System Review Series: In coagulation, the push continues for move and better - February 2007 (PDF, 662 KB)
System Review Series: Coagulation Analyzers(PDF, 880 KB)
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