Management of Nonconforming Laboratory Events (GP32-A)

New CLSI Document Provides Guidelines for the Management of Nonconforming Laboratory Events
Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA—December 2007— Managing nonconforming events is an integral part of continuous quality improvement, which maximizes patient safety and advances quality initiatives. The value of a program to manage nonconforming events is to balance time spent on event reporting, event analysis, and implementing interventions.

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has recently published a new guideline, Management of Nonconforming Laboratory Events; Approved Guideline (GP32-A), which provides an application example for the laboratory to develop a program for detecting, documenting, investigating, analyzing, and following up on events that do not conform with established policies, processes, and procedures (occurrence management).
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