Updated Demeber 14, 2010
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Feature Stories
- Critical value repeats—redundancy, necessity?
- GRAVITAS findings part of Plavix puzzle
- Promise and provisos of pediatric diagnostic testing
- Transfusion practices - In cardiac surgery, there will be blood—but why?
New blood transfusion studies in brief - When pathologists meet patients—lessons from one FNA practice
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Letters
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Hematology analyzers (PDF, 178 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Scuttling surrogate testing of platelets
- No longer sunk by sepsis
What affects the accuracy of lactate results? - Atlas blazes color path across full spectrum of urinalysis
- Face value—pathologists one on one with patients
- To and fro on band count reporting and clinical utility
- C. diff molecular testing with less time and effort
- Haiti tent hospital now on more solid ground
- Shape up? Ship out? Handling problem colleagues
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
LOINC workshop and meeting open to public - Information systems product guide:
LIS training: Introducing you to what you already own
Laboratory information systems (PDF, 242 KB)
- Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Automated molecular platforms (PDF, 272 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Cytology screening limits, by the numbers
- Social media in labs—hook, line, and sinker
- Personal learning about personalized medicine
- Accuracy-based Surveys carve higher QA profile
- Who goes where, when? Scheduling made easier
- New center underway as AFIP winds down
- 28 winners—for service as leaders, teachers, speakers, and more
- From the ABP, more MOC questions and answers
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Letters
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Chemistry analyzers fitting for low-volume labs
Chemistry analyzers fitting for low-volume labs (PDF, 143 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Pulling back the reins on superfluous testing
In coagulation, reflexive testing algorithms do the trick - Blueprint for blue-penciling phlebotomy errors
- Prepping for a firmer FDA hand in regulating LDTs
- New AST breakpoints bolster fight against resistance
Another resistance mechanism poses worldwide threat - All aboard—new DICOM standard for digital images
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Letters
- Shorts on Standards
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Lab automation—open, modular, informatics-focused
Laboratory automation systems and workcells (PDF, 159 KB)
- Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
Blood bank companies branching out and barreling ahead (PDF, 3.3 MB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Reeling in expense of reference lab testing
- More on lab-to-lab referrals
- New test could mean jump on lung cancer
- Packing POC dossier into new online tool kit
- Fourth-gen tests closing window on HIV detection
- Room to grow—warfarin self-testing still lags
- Ins and outs, plus doubts, about TC/PC setups
Cytopathology And More
- Two new checklist questions, changes to others
- Licensure—status in the states and scope of practice
- Benchmarking data for laboratory use in QA
- Survey of gynecologic cytopathology practices set to begin
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
For blood gas analyzers, larger menus and new features (PDF, 328 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Update: primary immunodeficiency disease
- For core laboratories, it’s all in the family
Fairview’s new and replacement technology/test
request form (PDF, 964 KB) - By July 2011, a demo on direct Medicare payment
- In health care reform, labs have winning hand
- Sailing safely through EMR software donations
- CAP TODAY readers turn page on digital issue
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Letters
- Shorts on Standards
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Adaptable chemistry analyzers taking the field
Chemistry analyzers for mid- and high-volume laboratories (PDF, 183 KB)
Positive patient ID: where it's at and where it's going (PDF, 1 MB)
Printers/labels/wristbands for positive patient identification (PDF, 75 KB)
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Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Bold move by one lab drops troponin TAT
- Boning up on vitamin D testing advances
- Talk it out—on genomics, TB, glucose, more
- Cola, confection, and confusion: OGTT alternatives for gestational diabetes
- Unmasking specimen ID errors, every step of the way
- Checklists: flexing to meet a new decade’s demands
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Letters
- Shorts on Standards
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Immunoassay analyzers—what’s new and notable
Automated immunoassay analyzers (PDF, 261 KB)
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Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Breast Cancer—Micrometastases turn answers to questions
- Closing the gap in transfusion-related iron overload
- For CAP’s cancer protocols, a user-friendly format
- Gene patents—sizing up the surprising first step
- Meeting MOC requirements: ABP answers questions
- Lab turns field hospital into one that’s more real
Cytopathology And More
- Views from on top: A look at the Future of Cytopathology Summit
- Complying with cross-contamination question
- Q & A
- ACOG bulletin on cervical cytology screening
- Your questions about feedback, faxback, staining, and more
- Soon, a survey of gyn cytopathology practices
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Ratcheting up labs’ revenue cycle management
Billing/accounts receivable systems (PDF, 119 KB) - Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
The latest in POC and self-testing coag
Coagulation analyzers—point of care, self-monitoring (PDF, 103 KB)
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Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Hammering away at patient ID error
- Making ER/PgR practices toe the line
- Thanks to weak economy and more, efficiency is king
- Laughter, less stress—labs talk up integrated analyzers
- Point-of-care testing through the lens of Lean
- Women in Guyana, others, counting on labs in U.S.
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Lab-link companies focus on future, strengthen connectivity
Laboratory-provider links software (PDF, 173 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- 3 of a kind: CF screening
- Honing drug dosing with standardized eGFR
Which estimate of kidney function is best for drug dosing? - For WBC differentials, report in absolute numbers
- Cholesterol—rethinking set practices
- PC billing case comes to a close
- Sitting pretty—the power of endowed chairs
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
If your lab’s AP system ain’t broke, just tweak it
Anatomic pathology computer systems
(PDF, 534 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Coming to terms with ‘metabolic syndrome’
- Latest flu spread full of surprises
A testing first: moderate complexity PCR for H1N1 - Sizing up the 2010 physician fee schedule final rule
- Solid (tumor) reasons for molecular biomarkers
Turning Cancer Genome Atlas findings into clinical tests - Pathology residents prep for personal genomics
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Information systems product guide:
Smarter, smoother decision management through middleware
Middleware systems
(PDF, 154 KB) - Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
What’s new in point-of-care glucose analyzers
Bedside glucose testing systems (PDF, 167 KB)
Cover Story
Feature Stories
- Keeping in step with the perfecting of troponin
Redefining myocardial infarction - Common lab tests, uncommon problems
Fructosamine testing - In Memoriam - Daniel L. Seckinger Jr., MD
- Seeking partners, samples for alternative PT
- For 2010 election, petitions due June 27
- Fructosamine testing
- Not so fast? Concrete considerations for digital move
Laboratory accreditation must-haves - Eye the basics, not baubles, for point-of-care testing
Cytopathology And More
- New FDA approvals of HPV vaccines
- Guidelines for reporting nongyn cytology specimens
- What to do with contaminated cytospin machine
- New FNA glass slide program
- See rare and unusual cases, and earn CME online
- Anatomic pathology programs—changes for 2010
- Discovering best practices in gyn cytopathology
- For CAP HPV Survey, choose your media type
Regular Features
- President’s Desk
- Clinical Abstracts
- Anatomic Abstracts
- Q & A
Interested in submitting a question? - Newsbytes
- Laboratory instrumentation product guide:
What’s new and what’s next for coagulation analyzers
Coagulation analyzers (PDF, 440 KB)
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