The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) have announced 'POCT08-A: A Point-of-Care Resource for Non-laboratory Specialists'.
This teleconference is based on the new CLSI document Quality Practices in Non-instrumented Point-of-Care Testing: An Instructional Manual and Resources for Health Care Workers; Approved Guideline (POCT08-A), and is intended to increase knowledge and quality of laboratory testing for testing personnel with no laboratory background.
The teleconference will introduce healthcare professionals to a new resource for managing and performing simple tests to improve patient care.
POCT08-A is intended as a tool for healthcare professionals overseeing or performing non-instrumented tests near the patient.
The session provides the basic principles of good laboratory practice along with a rich set of examples and forms to make the process simple and efficient.
At the conclusion of this programme, participants will be able to manage their point-of-care testing (POCT) programmes using examples and recommendations from POCT08-A and its appendixes.
Participants will also learn to revise their training plans on good laboratory practices for non-instrumented POCT to include information from the document, which has a basic learning level.
The teleconference's host and chair of the committee that developed POCT08-A is Sheldon Campbell, associate professor at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US.
Participants can register for this and other upcoming teleconferences on the CLSI website.
