CLSI eNews - 1 October 2006 (Plain Text Version)

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News
Executive Vice President's Message
Automation Alert - Standards in Lab Automation: Enabling Plug and Play
CLSI Supports Lab Quality Assessment Improvements
CLSI Newborn Screening Follow-up Guideline Highlighted at Successful International Society for Neonatal Screening Meeting
Standards Status
Vote and Deadlines
Recently Approved Documents
Call for Nominations
Events and Exhibits
Upcoming Events
CLSI Meetings Calendar
Participate in CLSI
Volunteer
New and Sustaining Members
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Vote and Deadlines

Laboratory Design (GP18-A2); Using Proficiency Testing to Improve the Clinical Laboratory (GP27-A2)

CLSI submits the following for vote as candidate-for-advancement consensus documents. The documents and ballots are available to delegates and alternates of Active and Associate Active member organizations through CLSI Forums.

Second Notice

GP18-A2—Laboratory Design; Approved Guideline – Second Edition
This document provides a foundation of information about laboratory design elements and guidance to help define the issues to be considered when designing a clinical laboratory. The deadline for the completed ballot for GP18-A2 to be received at the CLSI offices is 9 October 2006.

GP27-A2—Using Proficiency Testing to Improve the Clinical Laboratory; Approved Guideline—Second Edition
This guideline provides assistance to laboratories in using proficiency testing as a quality improvement tool. The deadline for the completed ballot for GP27-A2 to be received at the CLSI offices is 9 October 2006.

Under our Administrative Procedures, a CLSI document approved by the area committee at the first level of the consensus process is submitted to delegates as a “candidate-for-advancement” consensus document. This begins the voting and approval period by the delegates.

As a delegate, your vote is to affirm (or reject) the document for advancement as a CLSI document. Please send your completed ballot to the CLSI offices by the above deadline.

In the consensus process, comments are invited at each publication stage. In each edition, the responsible committee includes a summary of comments on the prior edition and its responses to them. Any comments received on a candidate-for-advancement consensus document as a result of delegate voting and consensus review will be addressed by the committee during the document’s advancement.

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