Featuring the top questions asked during OneLab’s popular 2023 webinar, with answers from Penny Keller, BS MB(ASCP), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Protocol for labeling secondary laboratory containers.
Continual improvement means making things better to benefit both the customer and the laboratory.
The cost of quality is more than a management tool. It’s a mindset that should be adopted at every operational level of a laboratory. The implications and cost associated with poor quality, or no quality, create ripple effects well beyond the walls of your laboratory.
Clinical and public health laboratories have a responsibility to ensure all specimen and testing activities are of the highest quality. Quality in the laboratory is a continual process and best accomplished using a systematic, managed approach.
Investing in a QMS will help your laboratory efficiently manage organizational assets, quantify the value, and impact a QMS brings, and identify opportunities to continuously improve your laboratory’s mission.
Reference Document for the 12 Quality System Essentials (QSE), that describe the foundational elements of laboratory Quality Management Systems (QMS).
This document contains the qualifications required for a clinical consultant in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
This document contains the qualifications required for a cytology general supervisor in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
This document contains the qualifications required for a cytotechnologist in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
This document contains the qualifications required for a general supervisor in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
This document contains the qualifications required for a laboratory director in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
This document contains the qualifications required for a technical supervisor in a laboratory performing high complexity testing. Cytology technical supervisor qualifications are also included in the cytology section.
This document contains the qualifications required for testing personnel in a laboratory performing high complexity testing.
eLearning course to equip learners with foundational information about CLIA.
Instructions and list of supplies (with images) for examining specimens for yeast.
This job aid covers essential topics for correctly delegating responsibilities to CLIA laboratory personnel and for identifying responsibilities a laboratory director must retain.
This flowchart outlines the qualifications necessary for a clinical consultant to comply with CLIA regulations related to moderate complexity testing as specified in 42 CFR 493.1417.
This flowchart outlines the qualifications necessary for a laboratory director to manage and direct laboratory personnel and the performance of moderate complexity tests as specified by CLIA regulations in 42 CFR 493.1405.
This flowchart details the qualifications required for a technical consultant to ensure compliance with CLIA regulations for moderate complexity testing as specified in 42 CFR 493.1411.
This flowchart describes the qualifications required for testing personnel to perform moderate complexity testing as specified by CLIA regulations in 42 CFR 493.1423.
Regulatory requirements, resources including forms and examples, and images of common microscopic findings for the nine specific microscopic examinations that may be performed under a Certificate of PPM Procedures.
Instructions and list of supplies (with images) describing the process of making a smear preparation.
eLearning course to prepare physicians, midlevel providers, and dentists to meet requirements for PPM procedures under a CLIA certificate.