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Clinical Chemistry Links

 

Organizations
AACC - American Association for Clinical Chemistry is the primary trade organization for the clinical chemistry community.
CLSI - Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute
CLMA - Clinical Laboratory Management Association
ASCLS - American Society of Clinical Laboratory Scientists
CLAS - Clinical Ligand Assay Society
CAP - College of American Pathologists
ASCP - American Society of Clinical Pathologists
JCAHO - Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
CMS (formerly HCFA) - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. U.S. Agency responsible for the CLIA program.
Institute for Quality in Laboratory Medicine
National Quality Forum
Eurachem
IFCC - International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Companies
Westgard Quality Corporation promotes the use of Westgard quality control rules to monitor the routine assay of parameters. This site has a large number of essays on various aspects of method validation and quality control -- so many that you may have trouble finding what you are looking for. Here is a mini Google search engine, just for the Westgard site. Type in your search term, they click 'Search Westgard'.
Google  
Proficiency Testing

The following PT providers have information online -- either event summaries, scoring criteria, or both:

Provider Event Summaries Scoring Criteria
Accutest   link
*American Association of Bioanalysts link link
American Proficiency Institute link  
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania link  
*State of New York link  
*Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene   link
American College of Physicians link  

* PT Limits for these providers are included in our Allowable Error Database

 
Reference Ranges
An assortment of online Laboratory Reference Manuals and Medical Self-Help Sites that publish normal ranges. David G. Rhoads Associates is not affiliated with any of these sites, and is not responsible for their content.
 
Nordic Reference Interval Project (NORIP)
UCSD Medical Center Guide to Laboratory Services
University of Virginia Medical Laboratories Pathology Lab Handbook
Normal Reference Range Table (UT Southwestern Medical Center)
University of Kentucky Clinical Lab Reference Guide
University of Iowa Dept of Pathology Laboratory Services Handbook
MedicineNet Inc
Reference Lab Test Directory at Marquette General Health System
Postgraduate Medicine: Problems in interpreting laboratory tests
Community Research Initiative on AIDS -- Understanding Your Lab Results -- 1999
Westgard QC: Medical Decision Levels
Medline Plus (NIH)
Dale's Nursing Place
bloodboook.com
Patients' Perspectives, Sample Reference Ranges for Blood Tests
Medical Laboratory Observer
Pacific Laboratory Medicine Services (Australia)
MyLaboratoryQuality.Com (Cembrowski)
University of Florida Shands Cancer Center
University of Michigan
Lab-One

Animals
Animal Health Laboratory Services User's Guide, University of Guelph (Canada)
Reference Values for Laboratory Animals (University of Minnesota)
Merck Veterinary Manual (Serum Biochemical)
Merck Veterinary Manual (Hematology)

Iowa State University
Abaxis Piccolo Avian Reference Intervals

 
Other Interesting Sites
Clinical Laboratory Science Internet Resources
MultiQC, Quality Control Software for Clinical Chemistry Laboratories
Bloodgas.org

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