Laboratory Testing
"Using Outlier Events To Monitor Test Turnaround Time - A College of American Pathologists Q-Probes Study in 496 laboratories."
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 16th, 1999
According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, "Objectives: To determine the causes of excessive test turnaround time (TAT) and to identify methods of improvement by studying reasons for those tests reported in excess of 70 minutes from the time the test was ordered (i.e., outliers). Setting: Self-directed data-gathering of stat outlier TAT events from intensive care units and emergency departments, with descriptive parameters associated with each event and additional descriptive parameters associated with the participant. Participants: Laboratories enrolled in the 1996 College of American Pathologists...
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