Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality

The ASCLS Patient Safety Committee develops ‘Patient Safety Tips Brochures’ for your use in providing testing information to your patients and providers. These educational brochures can be printed (two-sided printing), customized with your laboratory contact information, and distributed to your customers.

Patient and Family - Laboratory Safety Tip Brochures

• 24 Hour Urine Testing Collection
• Blood Specimen Collection (Venipuncture)
• Common Substances that Affect Laboratory Test Results
• Diarrhea & Stool Testing
• Fasting: What is it? Does It Matter?
• Genetic Testing
• Glucose Tolerance Testing
• Hydrogen Breath Test
• Lipid Testing
• Personal Coumadin INR Tracking
• Vitamin D

• Cardiac Biomarker for AMI
• Drug-related Laboratory Test Interference
• INR Point of Care Testing Performed by Provider or Caregiver
• Point of Care Testing Use & Limitations
• Using Laboratory Reference Intervals for Result Interpretation
• Vitamin D

• Patient Safety Website links
• Patient Safety Improvement & Indicators (example protocol and indicators)