The number and complexity of available lab tests has increased rapidly in recent years, making it difficult for clinicians to stay on top of the best, most appropriate tests to order. This can lead to ...

Laboratory testing plays a pivotal role in managing critically ill patients in intensive care units. In these high-stakes settings, timely and accurate test results are essential for diagnosis, ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Pediatric Laboratory Utilization Guidance Service (PLUGS ®) is an initiative from Seattle Children’s Hospital that helps clinical laboratories and ...

* Context.-Tests that are performed outside of the ordering institution, send-out tests, represent an area of risk to patients because of complexity associated with sending tests out. Risks related to ...

A laboratory algorithm that cancels redundant same-day white blood cell (WBC) differential orders saves money and technologists' time, according to new research. The findings suggest that employing ...

Perhaps more than any other area of clinical medicine, anticoagulation management laboratory data are evaluated hourly by healthcare systems in the inpatient setting and daily in the outpatient ...

Recently, the American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC), now Association of Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM), in collaboration with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) released ...