Reporting of Critical Values in Medical Laboratories - Awareness Course

Description

Laboratory diagnostics is critical to both the clinical decision making and to the managed care of the vast majority of human disorders. Critical values, also popularly known as alert or panic values are those medical laboratory results that may require rapid clinical attention to avert significant patient morbidity or mortality and therefore must be called immediately to a responsible physician/licensed ordering specified professional/ registered nurse for action. The timely and efficient communication of critical laboratory values is an unavoidable part of managed care and patient safety. This course will impart you the required awareness on reporting of critical values.

Who Should Attend?

• Lab directors and managers
• Quality managers and technical managers in laboratories
• Any one working in medical laboratories and involved in testing and reporting
• Quality & regulatory professionals
• Complaint handling personnel in medical laboratories
• Laboratory quality management consultants
• Anyone involved in the design and development of laboratory management software

Key Benefits

• Learn about the critical values and its importance
• Understand regulatory requirements on reporting of critical values in medical laboratories
• Understand the objectives of critical values reporting
• Learn how to plan and implement a system for communicating critical values
• Learn to develop effective Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for critical value reporting
• Learn the common mistakes made while reporting
• Understand the communication requirements in critical value reporting
• Learn to assign roles and responsibilities for critical value reporting
• Learn the documentation and record keeping practices
• Develop employee training plan for critical value reporting
• Learn the inspection and verification techniques
• Learn to identify and mitigate risks associated with reporting of critical values

Learning & Evaluation Method

This is  a live and interactive course.  Once you purchase the course, our team will contact you to plan the training. No matter where you are located, we schedule the classes based on your convenience and time zone. You can plan to attend the training in sessions of 4 or 8 hr duration, based on how much time you can spend in a day.

Buy for group Are you planning to buy this course for a group? We have the best prices for you! Select ‘Buy for Group’ option and add to the cart. You will get a discount of 60 – 75% for a group of up to 10 participants. To make a group purchase, create your group name and add individual emails of up to 10 participants. Each participant will get the access to the course materials, exam and the certificate. We will arrange one live-online session for the entire group.