Put It on the Board, 11/14
November 2014—Amid initial confusion over Ebola-related safety protocols for health professionals providing direct patient care, laboratory professionals report hearing a consistent message from the...
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December 2014—Clinical laboratories have made impressive headway in their Ebola preparedness, though their plans are shaping up in different ways. That’s due, in part, to varying opinions about how to...
View ArticleAnatomic Pathology Selected Abstracts, 12/14
December 2014—Value of autopsies in the era of high-tech medicine: Although the autopsy is still the gold standard for quality assessment of clinical diagnoses, autopsy rates have declined to less than...
View ArticleClinical Pathology Selected Abstracts, 12/14
December 2014—Prevalence of antimicrobial use in U.S. acute care hospitals: Inappropriate antimicrobial drug use is associated with adverse events in hospitalized patients as well as the emergence of...
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December 2014—Crizotinib shrinks tumors in ROS1-positive NSCLC: A recently published New England Journal of Medicine study that shows promise for the treatment of ROS1-positive lung cancer patients...
View ArticleQ&A column, 12/14
December 2014—What are the legal ramifications for medical technologists or medical laboratory technicians if they release results on suboptimal specimens on the insistence of physicians? What are the...
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December 2014—Why lab report formatting remains a work in progress: As a guiding principle, “form follows function” may be as appropriate for pathology reports as it was for 20th century architecture...
View ArticleFull speed ahead through tight corners
December 2014—Like sailing ships, laboratories hope for fair winds as they chart their business plans. But smooth sailing is never a sure bet; rough sea conditions are an ever-present possibility that...
View ArticleMassive transfusion: a question of timing, detail, a golden ratio
December 2014—Here it was, the kind of massive postpartum hemorrhage case for which the team at Duke University Medical Center had spent months preparing. The multidisciplinary group had agreed on...
View ArticleLetters, 11/14
November 2014—We read with great interest the two recent articles by William Check, PhD, highlighting primary HPV testing proposals (June and September 2014). Additional related information not covered...
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