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Case-Based Best Practices

in Effective Test Utilization for Clinical Laboratories

This CME/CMLE-accredited, case-based educational activity is designed to help clinical laboratory directors, clinical laboratory managers, and laboratory professionals increase the knowledge, skills, and competence in effective test utilization best practices for clinical laboratory settings. Through a series of ten 5-minute cases developed by a multidisciplinary team, you will gain a greater understanding of current and evidence-based guidelines to inform and impact clinical test ordering practices and reduce overconsumption of supplies without compromising patient care. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

1

Apply proven effective test utilization best practices for clinical laboratories.

2

Outline ways to reduce overconsumption of testing supplies without compromising patient care.

3

Improve communication with ordering physicians to more effectively use available resources.

4

Understand the value of tracking and providing feedback on blood culture contamination rates.

This Case-based Learning Includes the Following Topics:

  • Effective test utilization for pancreatitis, and cardiac injury and AMI
  • Blood collection tube consumption and conservation
  • Strategies for Reducing Repeat Daily Lab Test Ordering
  • Vitamin D Utilization – sound alike tests
  • Detecting Severity and Acuity of Inflammation

The activity offers 1.0 CME/CMLE credit.

How to Register

To register for this course, you need an ASCP account for the ASCP Store. If you don’t have one, click the button below to create a free account.
After obtaining a free ASCP account, register for the course using the following instructions:
  1. Follow this direct link to the Case-Based Best Practices in Effective Test Utilization for Clinical Laboratories course page on the ASCP store
  2. Add the class to the cart
  3. Click the Checkout button
  4. Click the “I’m not a robot” button
  5. Click the Submit button
  6. You will see a screen that says Home and My Account, click on My Account
  7. On the My Account page, there’s a section that says My Education, click on the blue button that says My Courses
  8. You’ll see a list of courses on the next page that you are registered for
  9. Click the button that says Launch or Start next to the name of the course
  10. Then you will be taken to the LMS to start the class
  11. Following completion of the course, course credit will be visible on the Dashboard page, under the section that says My Education, and the button that says Certificates & Transcript

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