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Vioxx and Vaccines, Values and Votes E-mail

October 2004

Note: this is an essay that mixes politics with laboratory healthcare.

When quality problems at a Chiron plant mean that half our flu vaccine shots are contaminated, you know that Laboratory Medicine has become part of politics.What you may not know is that politics have very much affected Laboratory Medicine in return, and the results of the election may well determine the future of our profession.

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Quality Indicators and Benchmarks E-mail

Are you ready for the latest lists for the laboratory? IQLM is preparing a list of Quality Indicators, as well as a list of things that physicians don't like about laboratorians, and a list of things that laboratorians don't like about physicians. In all of this "Top Tenning," is there anything useful?

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Troubles with Tracking Tests E-mail

The New York City Board of Health and Mental Hygiene has amended the city’s Health Code to require laboratories to report all hemoglobin Alc test results in order to monitor diabetic patients. Will monitoring approximately 100,000 results each month improve quality for anyone?

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CLSI faces the Challenge of Quality E-mail

April 2007

Dr. Westgard attended the recent CLSI workshop to learn about forthcoming standards on risk assessment, quality, and (E?)QC. It seems the rumors of the death of Options 1, 2, and 3 may have been exaggerated...

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The Health of US Healthcare E-mail
A recent report on the quality of US Healthcare doesn't put us in first place, despite spending far more on healthcare than other nations. Why is that? (Preview)
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