November 2021—In the latest edition of the laboratory general checklist, released in September, the requirements of the CAP Accreditation Programs have been edited to be more aligned with CAP 15189 (ISO 15189) accreditation requirements.
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September 2018—Ten years ago, Richard J. Zarbo, MD, was feeling pretty proud of his laboratory. As system chairman of pathology and laboratory medicine at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, over the previous few years he’d seen his team rigorously implement Lean practices, practices that had paid off in greater safety and efficiency. “Setting the bar higher was important because that’s the culture here,” he says. “This is what we do.”
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November 2013—When Richard J. Zarbo, MD, reflects on the strategy that helped his Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System achieve CAP accreditation to the ISO 15189 standard this summer, he likes to quote the system’s famously methodical founder: “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
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November 2013—Like turning around an ocean-going tanker, changing widely accepted testing practices in kidney disease, one of the nation’s most common disorders, may have to be done gradually. But the latest study comparing the biomarkers cystatin C and creatinine, published in the Sept. 5 New England Journal of Medicine (2013;369:932–943), is the most sweeping study to date and should provide new impetus to wider use of cystatin C.
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