Three New Patient Safety Tip Provider Brochures Are Now Available for Use
- INR Point-of-Care Testing Performed by Provider or Caregiver
- Using a Laboratory Reference Interval (Range) for Result Interpretation
- Point of Care Testing Use & Limitations
The ASCLS Patient Safety Committee continues to develop Patient and Provider Safety Tip brochures for your use in providing testing information to your patients and providers. We encourage you to customize, print (on two sides), and provide these brochures to your customers.
These new brochures provide education information and guidance for providers and other healthcare professionals on:
- Important basic quality aspects associated with INR POCT, Using Reference Intervals in Result Interpretation and Point of Care Testing Methods
Possible uses include but are not limited to:
- Provider and Healthcare Professional centered education material
- Prevention of testing and result interpretation errors
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Lezlee Koch, ASCLS Patient Safety Committee
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