PLUGS is supporting CLN’s new Laboratory Stewardship Focus section! The editors of Laboratory Stewardship Focus welcome you to this experiment in stewardship education. We are a diverse group of editors consisting of a clinical chemist, an informaticist, two pathologists, and a genetic counselor. Our goal is to cover all aspects of laboratory stewardship using a variety of engaging formats including interviews, articles, literature reviews, cases, and more. New articles are published quarterly!
Read our latest articles:
- Fifty Ways to Order Albumin? A National Initiative Towards Uniform Lab Test Names
Authors: Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC, and Darci Sternen, MS, CGC - Medical Necessity Policies: Creating Opportunities for Better Test Utilization and Fair Payment
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PhD - Putting Your Electronic Medical Record to Work for Lab Stewardship
Authors: Kevin Foley, PhD, DABCC, MT, SC(ASCP) - Leveraging Reference Laboratories to Improve Laboratory Stewardship in Health Systems
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PhD, and Donna D. Cooper, MS, MBA - Finding My Niche in Laboratory Stewardship as a Genetic Counselor
Authors: Susan Schowalter, MS, CGC - Good Governance in Laboratory Stewardship: A Roadmap for Success
Authors: Tony Smith, BS(HCM), MLT(ASCP) - Three Perspectives on Optimizing the Use of Next Generation Sequencing for Infectious Diseases
Authors: Erin Chung, MD, Drew Bell, PhD, Caleb Stokes, MD, PhD, - How to Successfully Navigate the Insurance Denial Appeal Process for Genetic Tests
Authors: Sam Huang, MD, and Jessie Conta, MS, LGC - Resolving the Ammonia Paradox
Authors: James Hellewell, MD, MS, and Richard Gilroy, MD - Supply Chain Meltdown? Laboratory Stewardship to the Rescue
Authors: Elise Occhipinti, MD - Taking Data Visualization for Blood Management to the Next Level and Beyond
Authors: Ryan A. Metcalf, MD, CQA(ASQ) and Alexander Lex, PhD - Simplifying the Test Menu to Beat Choice Overload
Authors: Charlene Bierl, MD - Not Just Kitting Around: Optimizing Alternate Sample Coordination for Genetic Tests
Authors: Claire Wittowski - Patient-Centered Laboratory Stewardship Can Reduce Financial Toxicity
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PhD, and Brian R. Jackson, MD - Is a Benefits Investigation Really Beneficial? An interview with Heather Agostinelli
Authors: Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC, and Jessie Conta, MS, LGC with Heather Agostinelli - Moving Toward Patient-centered Laboratory Stewardship
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PhD, and Brian R. Jackson, MD - HbA1c Access and Opportunity During the COVID 19 Pandemic
Authors: Derick Lim, MS, SC(ASCP)CM, MLS(ASCP)CM, Khushbu Patel, PhD, DABCC, and Tracey G. Polsky, MD, PhD - The Building Blocks of a Pharmacogenomic Program
Authors: Jennifer Eichmeyer, MS, CGC, and Christine Munro, MS, MPH, CGC - How Precision Medicine Combats Underused Genomic Testing
Authors: Ryan S. Nelson, PharmaD, and Howard L. McLeod, FASCO, FCCP - Aligning Genetic and Genomic Test Reimbursement With Value of Tests
Authors: Julie M. Eggington, PhD, and Megan E. Garlapow, PhD - So Many Choices: Selecting Reference Labs Using a Standard Process
Authors: Elizabeth Weinzerl, MD - Q&A: Help, COVID-19 Has Devoured My Lab Stewardship Program
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PHD - Can we talk? Addressing biases through thoughtful conversation
Authors: Jessica Shank, MS, LCGC - When Lab Testing Offered for Free Is Not Really Free
Authors: Darci Sternen, MS, LCGC, Jessie Conta, MS, LGC, and Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC - Navigating the Wild, Wild West of Diagnostic and Serology Testing in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Jennifer Kasten, MD, FASCP - Benchmarking: A Promising Practice for Lab Stewardship Toolkits
Authors: Joseph Rudolf, MD - Ethics of Al and Big Data in Laboratory Medicine
Authors: Brian Jackson, MD, MS - How to Say No to Sendouts: Strategies for coping with tests that aren’t ready for clinical use
Authors: Michael Astion, MD, PhD - The 3 C’s of Improving Lab Stewardship: Collaboration, Champions, CPOE: An illustrative story of improving testing for C3 glomerulonephropathy
Authors: Jane Dickerson, PhD - Overdiagnosis: An Unintended Side Effect of Diagnostic Testing
An interview with: H. Gilbert Welch, MD, MPH
Authors: Jane Dickerson, PhD, and Brian Jackson, MD - Blurred Lines: Comparing Direct-to-Consumer and Clinical Testing
Authors: Jacquelyn Riley, MS, LGC, and Katie Stoll, MS, CGC - Perimortem Genetic Testing in a Children’s Hospital A Team Approach to Policy Development
Authors: Darci L. Sternen, MS, LCGC, and Bonnie Cole, MD
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