Laboratory Accreditation Newsletter

Updated: December 21, 2007

December 2007

• Clickable credit, competency, more: In checklists, changes of all shapes and sizes
• Point-by-point checklist for POC testing
• Queries and comments

August 2007

• Inspection packets made more user-friendly
• Activity menus: soon to be online and real time
• Queries and comments

April 2007

• Matching labs for inspection now faster, more objective
• A simpler, better assignment system
• Queries and comments

December 2006

• CAP fine-tunes unannounced inspection process
• Revised checklists available; time to modify practices
• Queries and comments

August 2006

• Lab inspector training online; PT performance monitoring on tap
• Checklist undergoing more intensive review
• Queries and comments

April 2006

• Surprise! Unannounced inspections not so bad
• CLA revamp means speed, efficiency
• Queries and comments

December 2005

• CAP adds council, readies new inspection processes
• Three tenors: styles of lab inspections
• Queries and comments

September 2005

• Commission raises bar for inspectors, inspections
• Jump-start inspections by working the Web
• Queries and comments

May 2005

• Commission forges ahead on many fronts
• With PT failures, spinning straw into gold
• Queries and comments

February 2005

• CLA underscores consistency and accountability
• Queries and comments

October 2004

• All eyes on cytopathology lab inspections
• Queries and comments

June 2004

• CLA cultivates relationships and grooms checklists
• Avoiding potential conflicts of interest
• Queries and comments

February 2004

• Keeping up with the calendar for cytogenetics checklist
• CLA polishes checklists, prepares Surveys for new year
• Queries and comments

October 2003

• CLA probes problems, reacts to new rules and regs
• Queries and comments

June 2003

• Tapping inspector training
• Queries and comments

February 2003

• Commission building bridges and turning out tools
• Lab Accreditation Program in sync with CLIA
• Proficiency testing scoring changes
• Molecular pathology inspections: rhyme and reason

October 2002

• Three R’s and more at core of commission meeting
• Queries and Comments

June 2002

• Brushing up on the latest provisos, ideas
• Queries and Comments

February 2002

• Winds of change--training, checklists, pricing
• Comparing PT results can put a lab’s CLIA license on the line
• Queries and comments

October 2001

• A departing note
• Improving inspections a matter of refinement
• New pricing structure
• Queries and comments

June 2001

• How jazz CDs helped smooth the way to accreditation
• CLA zeroes in on timeline kinks and CAP LINKS
• The line on laboratory accreditation south of the border
• Queries and comments

March 2001

• Autopsy update-proposals, pointers, and PR
• Retention of laboratory records and materials
• To cite or not to cite—determining what’s right
• Averting skirmishes—complaint, conflicts rules revised

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