The American Proficiency Institute (API), a global leader in proficiency testing programs, is dedicated to improving the accuracy and efficiency of clinical laboratory testing...

Quality control (QC) remains one of the most important tasks of the medical laboratory to ensure the reliability and accuracy of reported patient results. Whenever results are...

The spate of recent public health crises, beginning with COVID-19 and including the mpox outbreak that began last year, underscored the importance of quality control measures ...

Laboratories use quality control (QC) procedures to assure the reliability of the test results they produce and report. According to ISO 15189, the International Organization ...

The cost of errors and its antithesis, the cost of quality, is often written about in terms of financial impact to medical laboratories and the healthcare system. This article...

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a standard laboratory technique used to amplify a specific sequence of DNA many times over. This technique has become an important tool in clinical...

COLA announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has awarded COLA deemed status for the pathology specialty.“Now that COLA has deeming authority for the ...

Laboratories conducting diagnostic testing, classified by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as non-waived, are required to be compliant with the 1988 regulations of ...

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has published the 5th edition of M39 — Analysis and Presentation of Cumulative Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test Data. This...

Streck said its quality control kit for the BioFire BCID2 Panel for sepsis has been granted clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).MDx-Chex for BCID2 is a patient...