Guideline Aims to Improve Autoverification Techniques

With increasing pressure to maintain adequate turnaround times and to enhance the quality of results, clinical laboratories must develop new methods for increasing productivity with limited resources. Automated verification, or “autoverification,” has emerged as a tool for laboratories whose goal is to streamline their processes while maintaining the highest quality standards.

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS) document Autoverification of Clinical Laboratory Test Results; Approved Guideline (AUTO10-A) provides a general framework that allows each laboratory to easily design, implement, validate, and customize rules for autoverification based on its patient population needs. Additionally, supporting sections discuss the different aspects of regulatory compliance and validation of algorithms that are essential to establishing and maintaining a modern autoverification system

Read the full article as originally published in LABMEDICINE, April 2008.

“Lab Guidelines & Standards” is a monthly column published in LABMEDICINE. Watch for additional articles from the column in future issues of CLSI eNews.
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