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2008 CAP TODAY Article Index (PDF, 183)
Cover Story
The small, small world of quantum dots
Feature Stories
Health care under Obama—what to expect
Soon, all eyes on better blood use
Tapping ‘hidden’ sources of pathology revenue
Sneak preview: normal prothrombin time and aPTT
Case study
Clot knot–unraveling tests for coag disorders
Foreign exchange—gleaning ideas from labs abroad
First–year residents—let’s start from the very beginning
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
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Newsbytes
Your CPT Questions
Information systems product guide:
Much ado about size, standardization, simplicity, and specimen transport
Hematology analyzers (PDF, 510 KB)
Cover Story
Tuberculosis testing no longer skin deep
Feature Stories
Labs on the brink of ISO 15189 approval
Coag collision course—cancer and thrombosis
Integrated analyzers: proof is in the throughputting
Differential strokes—Mayo’s take on middleware
7 years into CF carrier screening, and still controversy
Critical values—looking closely at calls, cutoffs
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
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Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
Moving to a new LIS? Let the headaches begin (PDF, 4.2 MB)
Cover Story
For nucleic acid extraction, choices galore
Feature Stories
Ageless quest—hunt for AD biomarkers
A serum antibody targeting brain microglia
Ruling casts shadow on accepted billing practice
The Illinois billing case in brief
MRSA Survey and others energize next year’s lineup
In wristband, a simple reminder about safety
With Lean’s help, 14 inspections soon to be one
Minute by minute, digital a boon to tumor board
For outstanding service, awards aplenty
Four governors reelected
Feather in your CAP—ACCME’s highest accreditation
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
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CAPScan
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide: - Powerful possibilities for low-volume laboratories
Chemistry analyzers for low-volume laboratories - (PDF, 542 KB)
Cover Story
Subtypes put HIV viral loads in spotlight
Feature Stories
The eyes don’t have it—facing a shortfall in ophthalmic pathology
Class action for myeloproliferative disorders
Making AP count with computer-assisted imaging
Locking in freshness—keeping biospecimens fit
For biorepository setup, consider consent, QA, and more
In microbiology, speedy results with PNA probes
Laboratory Accreditation News
Made to order—online customized checklistsQ & A
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
Interested in submitting a question?
Newsbytes
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Companies fashion features to beef up blood bank systems
Blood bank information systems (PDF, 140 KB)
Cover Story
Vision quest–fresh look at AP automation
Feature Stories
Things heat up for personalized testing
Wins, worries on reimbursement battlefields
An appealing decision in Fla. PC payment case
Making the right calls on critical values, tests
Laying antiquated autopsy facilities to rest
PAP/NGC Program Review
Decade of wisdom on ultrasound-guided FNAs
For all of us, a place to ponder cytopathology’s future
Practice patterns in HPV testing
PAP/NGC Q and A
Heads in the sand—or not?
For cytotechnologists, molecular training a must
Cytotechnology schools under threat
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
Interested in submitting a question?
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
For blood gas analyzers, improvements all around
In vitro blood gas analyzers (PDF, 127 KB)
Cover Story
Are we there yet? New respiratory panels
Feature Stories
Putting glucose data to hospitalwide useNew clue for predicting stroke risk: Lp-PLA2
Green light for class arbitration on PC payment
Informatics to the rescue in fixing ‘blunt end’ AP errors
Outreach jujitsu—battle–tested sales advice
CPT Questions
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
How investments in positive ID pay out in patient safety
Positive patient identification systems and products (PDF, 211 KB)
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
All eyes on broad test menus, integrated platforms
Chemistry analyzers for mid- and high-volume laboratories (PDF, 180 KB)
Cover Story
Punching a hole in specimen ID errors
Feature Stories
Starting point for lung cancer drugs: spot-on diagnoses
New century, new viruses, new worries
The return of measles, mumps, and rubella
Never give in—fighting for POC patient safety
Labs coming up short in finding new talent
AACC meeting packed with speakers, exhibits
For RBCs, out with the old, in with the new?
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Sensitivity, software, new tests for immunoassay needs.
Automated immunoassay analyzers Survey (PDF, 290 KB)
Cover Story
Mitigating MRSA, steps ahead of the law
Feature Stories
Staphylococcus aureus screening methods, today and to comeAmazing mets test? Sizing up a new assay
Findings of an evidence-based assessmentBringing new rigor to RhIG calculations
Physician, define thyself–pathology’s real role
Start spreading the news
Adjusting to the new anticoagulation safety rules
What the Joint Commission will require in safety goal 3E:
PAP/NGC Program Review
A dialogue on thyroid disease reporting and managementCervical cancer screening guidelines —communicating the right message
Soon, a new gynecologic cytology atlas
Statistically speaking, federally mandated PT is unreliable
Gyn cytology PT–’06 results and tough questions
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
Interested in submitting a question?
CAPScan
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
Vendors bank on new billing system features
Billing/accounts receivable systems (PDF, 115 KB)
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Coagulation analyzers–point of care, self-monitoring (PDF, 144 KB)
Cover Story
Viral virtuoso—RT-PCR as first-line test
Feature Stories
Using IT to anchor outreach in the black
Chi’s survey results
Putting POCT in good hands
For pathologists, the future arrives this June
SNP to it–moving arrays into clinical use
Demands of molecular outstrip ordinary LISs
Sifting through software—how one lab chooses
Going to Ghana, pathology expertise in tow
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
CAPScan
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
New name for an established game
LPL vendors fix on future, set common course
LPL Vendors Survey (PDF, 171 KB)
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Safety at the center of glucose meter developments
Glucose Survey (PDF, 128 KB)
Cover Story
Too fast or too slow on PGx testing?
Feature Stories
PT referral raising red flags with CMS
Your CPT Questions
No going it alone on test use
Exclusionary criteria for dysuria
Speeding toward real time with POC glucoses
Looking to hike tissue donations for HER2 Surveys
Merged lab on track with efficient design
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
Vendors’ views on the function and future of middleware
Flexing connectivity muscle with middleware
Flexibility at heart of automation solutions
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Middleware Systems (PDF, 103 KB)
Laboratory automation systems and workcells (PDF, 163 KB)
GHC Laboratory Utilization Management (PDF, 305 KB)
Cover Story
What’s the use? Mending lab utilization
Feature Stories
Small no more —stopping the erosion of control in AP
A look at HER2 testing today, HER2 tomorrow
An urgent need for breast tissue samples
Good news on critical values, says Q-Probes audit
Study findings in brief
Digging their way in: digital pathology systems
MGH SICU guidelines for lab testing
PAP/NGC Program Review
Cervical cancer screening’s future in the post-vaccination era—a viewpoint
Perilous times for the Pap test?
PAP/NGC Q & A
Always inspection-ready
CAP HPV Survey to begin soon
Regular Features
President’s Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
To gather, e-mail, or call ... or simply skip it all
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Anatomic pathology computer systems (PDF, 876 KB)
Cover Story
Lifting the quality of IHC analysis
Feature Stories
Pathology joins the PQRI plan this year
Looking for trouble in all the right places
At Molecular Summit, mix and match diagnostics
For molecular, a brand-new way
CPT ’08–tallying what’s new and revised for labs
Estrogen receptor testing–does your lab have the right stuff?
Regular Features
CAPScan
CPT Questions
President’s Desk
Letters
Clinical Abstracts
Anatomic Abstracts
Q & A - Latest Queries and Comments
Interested in submitting a question?
Newsbytes
Information systems product guide:
Plenty that’s new and improved in coagulation market
Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Coagulation Analyzers (PDF, 1.3 MB)
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