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What is Part A?
August 2001
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Education
- Resident/student teaching/lectures/supervision/signout (25%)
- Attending lectures, CME, conferences, etc.
- Presentation/participation conferences for medical staff education
- Technologist/other hospital personnel teaching/supervision
Administration
- Committee meetings
- E-mail, mail, minutes, travel, etc.
- LIS computer—evaluation of data, report formats
- Project planning
- Budget/financial
- Personnel/staff recruitment
AP/CP laboratory management
- Respond to and educate medical staff (informal consults)
- Determine need for specific CP/AP procedure(s)
- Determine appropriate diagnostic method for analyte(s)
- Evaluate clinical relevance of results (normal and abnormal)
- Establish test reference values and levels of precision, accuracy, specificity, and sensitivity
- Determine the effect(s) of other analytes/medications/disease states on test results
- Interact with medical staff on laboratory issues
- Design test protocols and establish parameters for the performance of tests and method correlations
- Establish appropriate turnaround time(s)
- Establish and monitor referral criteria
- Develop and monitor criteria for stat (emergency) procedures
- Establish and respond to "alert" (panic) values
- Determine the type of data collection and storage criteria that will be used for particular tests
- Evaluate clinical reference laboratories
- Develop and monitor guidelines for utilization of clinical lab procedures
- Monitor and evaluate test and QC performance
Quality control and quality assurance
- Establish appropriate monitors, corrective actions
- Establish, direct, perform, or monitor QC and QA activities
- Direct, perform, or monitor proficiency testing and related issues
- QA for other departments and hospital policy support
Autopsy—All aspects, performance, review, signout
Direction of point-of-care testing
Accreditation—JCAHO, CLIA, AABB, OSHA, CAP, state
Research—Clinically oriented research
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