Your Patient Safety Committee (PSC) Is Proud to Announce… A New 'Gift for You' Just in Time for the Holidays!ASCLS Patient Safety & Healthcare Quality Community – You are personally invited to
JOIN this NEW COMMUNITY today!What is this new community all about?• This is a new ASCLS Community designed for individuals interested in improving patient health outcomes through interprofessional continuous improvement in laboratory and healthcare systems
• One component of this exciting new community: The ASCLS PSC is actively monitoring many healthcare and laboratory websites and organizations to bring you up-to-date patient safety and/or healthcare quality references and resources. Information shared by the PSC will be via blog entries. Titles of these blogs will begin with – Advocate Excellence. Blog articles will be brief, document the website or organization that the information was published by, and provide a quick access link to obtain the information
• All Community members are encouraged to share references, resources, tips and tools related to Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality
How do you join this new community?• Go to the ASCLS Member Portal --> login as Member
• From your listed bookmarks --> select 'ASCLS Member Communities'
• Select 'Communities' (upper bar menu) --> select 'All Communities'
• Locate
'Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality' --> click 'Join'
Current PSC published blog articles & links:Advocate Excellence - Potential Unnecessary Pediatric Endocrine Testing --
(read blog)Advocate Excellence – New Online Resource for CLIA Waived Laboratories --
(read blog)Advocate Excellence – Potential Unnecessary Testing Recommendations --
(read blog)Advocate Excellence – Appropriate Antibiotic Use Resource for Consumers --
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Lezlee Koch
ASCLS PSC Vice-Chair
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