Comparison of cytology proficiency testing: glass slides vs. virtual slides. Acta Cytol 2004;48(6):788-94.Gagnon M, Inhorn S, Hancock J, Keller B, Carpenter D, Merlin T, et al. Comparison of cytology proficiency testing: glass slides vs. virtual slides. Acta Cytol 2004;48:788-94....
Beginning in 1994, clinical laboratories performing nonwaived testing were required, under the regulations implementing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA), to enroll and participate in a proficiency testing (PT... Devery Howerton, John M Krolak, Adam Manasterski, James H ...
Enrollment for proficiency testing (PT) as required by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. For more details see section on External Quality Assurance Mechanisms. Rapid Re-evaluation Rapid rescreening (RR) ofcervical smearsfor internal quality control has been advocated by a number of authors...
After more than a decade without a government approved proficiency testing program for gynecologic cytology, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services appears on the brink of requiring labs to conduct cytology. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments regulations require labs that perform gynecologic ...
Health sciences Documentation of quality assurance for clia 1988 regulations in a cytology laboratory ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES Indra Balachandran VictorTaKarraThe Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1988 is a federally funded program that has established guidelines for laboratories ...
Reviewed is the history of quality control and quality assurance in cytopathology, the legistlative history and regulations that impact the cytology laboratory and the current status of proficiency testing of cytotechnologists and cytopathologists... [Show full abstract]doi...
held March 1-2, 1988 at which representatives of professional societies were requested to take back to their societies a list of measures relating to quality assurance and proficiency testing in the cytology laboratories through the Medicare and Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act licensing regulations. ...