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	2008 Lab Focus - July Appropriate Lab Orders Save Money Lab Focus - June New Test Offers Improved Detection of Syphilis Antibodies Lab Focus - April Laboratories Evaluate Critical Values, Seek Physician Input Epic, FCIS Links to Test Results Saves Time, Enhances Safety Study of Critical Values Reveals Trends Recommended Changes to Fairview Critical Values and Comparative Data Lab Focus - March Electronic Transfusion Order to Roll Out in FCIS Fairview Laboratories to Convert Serum Creatinine Calibration Creatinine Standardization Program Medical Center Staff Develops New MTP Lab Focus - February Earlier Identification of Patients with or at Risk of AMI Respiratory Virus Testing Update Clinics Move to Point of Care A1c Testing Lab Focus - January Apheresis/Blood Donor Center Offers Life-Saving Therapies Test Utilization Management: Right Test, Right Time, Right Patient 2007 Lab Focus - December Fairview Laboratories Update Drug Test Reporting Government Reports 8.3% of U.S. Population Use Illicit Drugs; 50.7% Use Alcohol Lab Focus - November Lessons Learned from Lean Practices Medical Center to Initiate Massive Transfusion Protocol Lab Focus - October Laboratories to Convert to New Troponin Assay Testing Bone Marrow Versus Venous Blood New B-hCG Assay Offers Enhanced Testing Irradiation Errors Down, But Samples Still Mislabeled Lab Focus - September New Assays Detect MRSA, Enterovirus in CSF, C. difficile Toxins A and B, and Emergency Rapid Screening for Malaria Microalbumin vs. Albumin Patient Charges for Laboratory Tests Now Available on Fairview Intranet Phillips Neighborhood Free Clinic Receives Supplies from Riverside Acute Care Laboratory Professor Honored for Appointment Special Coagulation Laboratory to offer PAI-1 Test Lab Focus - August Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory Offers Tests for Chronic Myeloproliferative Disorder, Renal Coloboma Syndrome and Warfarin Dosing Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide Antibody Testing Aids Diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis Lab Focus - July Laboratories Convert to New Assay for NT-proBNP Lab Focus - June Platelet Crossmatch Compatibility Screen Now in FCIS Respiratory Season Ends Glucose Reference Range Change New Equipment Provides Improved Vitamin D Testing New Test Available to Monitor Fondaparinux (Atrixtra) Lab Focus - May Laboratory Compliance Update for Physicians and Authorized Practitioners Laboratories Establish Critical Value for Creatine Kinase (CK) Priscilla Cherry Named Fairview Laboratory Services President Lab Focus - April Fairview Blood Suppliers to Screen for Chagas Disease University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview's Acute Care Laboratory Remodels Using "Lean" Principles Lab Focus - March Lab Switches to qCMV Measuring D-Dimer to Evaluate Thromboembolism GFR Viewed as Good Indicator of Early Kidney Disease Lab Focus - February State's First Culture-Confirmed Influenza Case Matches Vaccine Changes to Reporting Renal Immunopathology Results For Safety, Label Specimens in Front of Patient Lab Focus - January Adult Inpatient Transfusion Order Revised Blood Component Irradiation Clarified How to Use Adult Inpatient Transfusion Order Forms 2006 Lab Focus - December New Guidelines for collecting AFB Cultures and Stains Laboratories Convert to New Assay for NT-proBNP Upper Respiratory Disease: Two Profiles to Aid in Diagnosis Lab Focus - November Upper Respiratory Disease: Two Profiles to Aid Diagnosis Lab Focus - October Glucose Reference Ranges to Reflect Fasting or Casual Status for Outpatients Laboratories to Include Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease with GFR Report Laboratories to Discontinue Reflexing Reducing Substances from Routine Urinalysis Physician Performed Testing Policies Now Online Fairview Cytology Laboratory to Offer FISH Testing Lab Focus - September New Homocysteine Methodology Provides Increased Test Sensitivity Glomerular Filtration Rate: Recommendations for Estimations and Measurement New Test for JAK2 V617 Mutation Lab Focus - August Changes in Lupus Inhibitor Work-Up Simplifying the Transfusion Order Process VeriSafe System Increases Patient Safety Lab Focus - July Fairview Red Wing Changes to Vitros Method of Bilirubin Measurement Respiratory Season Ends Diagnosing von Willebrand Disease Lab Changes Lowest Detection Limit for Drug Levels Consumer-Directed Health Plans Challenge Payment for Laboratory Services Lab Focus - June Collect type and cross samples at least one day prior to elective surgery to avoid delays in blood availability New reference ranges for Protein S Free Antigen and Activated Protein C Resistance Laboratories to evaluate amino terminal-proBNP (NT proBNP), an automated test for diagnosing heart failure Lab Focus - May Laboratory Compliance Update for Physicians and Authorized Practitioners Diagnosing Pre-diabetes Lab Focus - April Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Quantitation Method Changes Lab Focus - March New Chemistry/Immunochemistry Instrumentation C-Reactive Protein, Inflammatory vs. C-Reactive Protein, Cardiac Risk Atlas at Last: Electronic Ordering and Reporting All Fairview Sites Now Provide Leukoreduced Blood Components Virology Laboratory Extends Hours of Service Laboratories Make Change in Urinalysis Reporting Lab Focus - February FDA Warns of Possible Falsely Elevated Glucose Results Pap Test Update: Report Benign Endometrial Cells for Patients Over 40 Years of Age Regulatory Inspections for Laboratories Will Occur Unannounced Laboratory Discontinues Beta Quantitation New Instrumentation Allows Reporting of Urine Microscopic Examination Lab Focus - January Changes in Newborn Screening for NICU Infants Less Than 1800 Grams Quantitative BK Virus DNA Detection on Urine and Plasma Samples Available Quantitative CMA DNA PCR Now Available Herpes Simplex Virus Antibody Testing Now Available Real Time PCR Detection of Group B Streptococci 2005 Lab Focus - December Magnesium Medical Necessity Guidelines Revised HDL Cholesterol New Assays: Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1), Insulin-Like Growth Factor Binding Protein 3, Tissue Transglutaminase Antibodies, IgA and IgG Improved Test for Colon Cancer Screening Use of GFR to Assign Stage of Chronic Kidney Disease Lab Focus - November Estimation of Glomerular Filtration Rate from Cystatin Concentration Blood Bank Process Improvement Efforts Include Physician Blood Order Form Coagulation Testing Changes Lab Focus - September Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Rapid Antigen Testing Mycophenolic Acid Now Performed In-House JCAHO Tissue Standards Blood Culture Q & A Patients Now Receive Barcoding Armbands Lab Focus - July Fairview Express Lab: Direct Access Testing Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Quantitation and Genotyping Available Billing for Point of Care testing End of Respiratory Season Patient Identification Barcoding Pilot Begins in August Lab Focus - June Donated Teddy Bears Given with Blood Donation Remodeling Completed at Riverside Acute Care Laboratory New JCAHO Standards for Tissues Lab Focus - May New Manager at Fairview Southdale Celiac Testing Euglobulin Lysing Time Replaced with Thromboelastograph Testing Point of Care Results Interfaced to the Patient Medical Record Immunosuppressive Drugs Now Measured by LC Tandem Mass Spectrophotometry Lab Results May Be Linked to MD Pay for Performance Patient Identification Barcoding Project at Fairview-University Update Lab Focus - April New Physician Order Form for Blood Components at Fairview-University Chromogenic Factor X Level Now Offered Urinary Protein Measurements Reflex Laboratory Testing at Fairview Laboratories Lab Focus - March Change in Lactic Acid Specimen Requirements at Fairview University Medical Center Reference Laboratory Selection Advance Beneficiary Notices and Medicare Lab Focus - February FLT3 Testing Now Offered Medical Necessity: What is it? Update on CMS Diabetes Screening Benefit Killeen Wins Foundation Award Lab Focus - January New Gel Tubes Now Available CMS Announces New Screening Benefits for 2005 2004 Lab Focus - December Laboratory Compliance Update for Physicians: Medicare Coverage Policies and Reimbursement Glomerular Filtration Rate Calculation Established WNV Season Ends Lab Focus - November Gram Stains: Guidelines for Use and Interpretation Change in Hours for Special Coagulation Hepatitis C RNA Testing Changes Fairview-University to Begin Irradiating All Platelet Components to Increase Patient Safety Lab Focus - October Hemolyzed Potassium Reporting Irradiation of Plasma and Cryoprecipitate Discontinued at Fairview-University New Pathology Staff New System for Improved Immunosuppressive Drug Testing Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia Complicating Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Pediatric Patients: High Incidence and Significant Mortality in Unrelated Donor Transplants for Non-Malignant Diseases Lab Focus - September Falsely Elevated Total T3 Results Expanded Protein/Endocrine Weekend Testing Menu Direct Access Testing Pilot Begins This Fall Cervical Cytology - A Sea of Change Lab Focus - August West Nile Virus Season is Here National Cholesterol Education Program Revised Guidelines Fairview Laboratories Encourage Use of ALT over AST Change in Units and Reference Ranges for CRP and Sensitive CRP Lab Focus - July 2004 Transfusion Guidelines Available HIV Rapid Antibody Test (OraQuick): Available Systemwide Point of Care Creatinine Testing Initiated in Radiology Order HCV Quantitative and HCV Genotype Individually Consider Implications of Point of Care Testing Lab Focus - June Heparin Xa Level Newborn Screen Test Cards Change July 1 Laboratory Trivia HIV Rapid Antibody Test (OraQuick): Availability and Indications Upper Respiratory Disease: Easy to Find; Difficult to Diagnose Lab Focus - May Finding the Laboratory Guide on the Intranet/Internet Using "Dose" for Adult Platelet Orders Fairview-University Medical Staff Executive Committee Approves Platelet Substitution Fairview Southdale and Fairview Ridges Approve Platelet Substitution Influenza and RSV Season Ends Lab Focus - April New Allergen Available Pyruvic Acid Testing Moves to ARUP Laboratories Measurement of Saliva Offers Advantages Over Serum Sampling New Reflex Testing Algorithm for von Willebrand Disease Multimers to Decrease Laboratory Costs Lab Focus - March New Aspergillus Antigen Test Available Cytology Laboratory Improves Turnaround Time Change in ALT Reference Ranges Ketone Method Change at Fairview University New First Trimester Test for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) Centers Lab Focus - February New Bacterial Testing of Platelet Components Begins March 1 Technical Approaches for Bacterial Detection New Molecular Pathology Textbook Cystic Fibrosis Carrier Screening GFR Reference Range to Change Based on Physician Feedback Lab Focus - January Creatinine Reporting Range is Simplified Prostatic Specific Antigen (PSA) Reporting Range Evaluation of Thyroid Function Fibrinogen Name Change GFR Now Reported with Creatinine 2003 Lab Focus - December Some patients that formerly typed as Rh negative are now typing as Rh positive Tracking Pending Labs on a Discharged Patient in FCIS Changes to Congenital Thrombophilia Testing New Methodology for Respiratory Viral Cultures West Nile Virus Summary Data Pathology Coverage Changes Lab Focus - November New Heparin Level Ranges Rapid Testing for Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) is now available F-UMC has consolidated post-mortem examinations Epstein Barr PCR Test Performed at Fairview-University Heparin Level Available 24h/d and Thrombin Time Discontinued New Test Added to Lupus Panel Cervical Cancer Testing Can Start Later and Occur Less Often Lab Focus - September Glucose Testing and Diagnosis of Diabetes: Revised American Diabetes Association Criteria Primary Care Provider Fact Sheet and Targets for Chronic Kidney Disease from the National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) New/Modified Allergen Tests Beta-2 Microglobulin Method Change Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Reporting Coming this Fall Lab Focus - August New Plastic Coagulation Collection Tubes Replace Glass Citrate Tubes New Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test Available for Source Testing in Cases of Employee Exposure 2002 FCIS Survey Summary Clinical Laboratory Results on Metro Clinic Patients are now Viewable in FCIS Newborn Screening: Changes in MDH Results Notification Lab Focus - July Barcode Technology Proposed to Enhance Patient Safety New Coagulation Reference Ranges effective June 3 West Nile Virus Testing Available Lab Focus - June New Method is More Cost Effective, Faster for Factor V Leiden and Prothrombin Mutation Analysis New Pap Smear Technology Reduces Patient Anxiety, Cost End of Respiratory Season May 12 West Nile Virus Testing Lab Focus - May LIS goes Live at Fairview Northland Regional Hospital Platelet Function Test Replaces Bleeding Time At Fairview Ridges Hospital West Nile Virus Is Transmitted by Transfusion Lab Focus - April FDP Discontinued: Quantitative D-Dimer Offers Greater Specificity CLIA Regulations Have Minimal Impact On Fairview Labs New coagulation testing reference ranges and critical values Coagulation Results Become Standardized Across Fairview Hospitals Hemogram to Become CBC with Platelets Therapeutic Guidelines for Heparin Administration Lab Focus - February Proposed LMRP for Phenytoin AND Free Phenytoin New Coagulation Instruments Hemogram to Become CBC with Platelets! Highlights of the Bethesda 2001 System for Pap Test Terminology 2002 Lab Focus - December Cytology and Biopsy Results Now in FCIS CA 125 Method Changes Cytology Reporting Moves to Bethesda 2001 Terminology Fairview's Blood Supply Very Good Compared to U.S. Blood Supply Lab Focus - November Diagnosis of Hypoglycemia Test/Specimen Updates Identifying Viruses Can Reduce Morbidity, Mortality Reduced Discharge Reports Designed to Improve Physician Satisfaction Gonorrhoeae Test Recall May Prompt Retesting of Some Patients Lab Focus - October B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Specimen Requirements Current Blood Glucose Testing Validated by Users B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Test Available Recommended frequency for Troponin Testing Status of Premier Contracts for Blood Glucose Meters Immunohistochemistry Laboratory Offers Nine New Assays Lab Focus - September Change in Urinary Cortisol Method New Test Method for diphtheria and tetanus antibodies New Test Method for cardiolipin antibodies New Test Method for CA 27.29 Thin-Layer PAP Boosts Detection Rate by 93% Laboratories Pioneer PCR HPV Reflex Testing on Thin-Layer PAP Limitations of PAP Testing Lab Focus - August Fairview Blood Component Transfusion Guidelines RSV Discontinued Over Summer Change in HIV Quantitative Testing B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Pathology Reports on Riverside Campus of Fairview-University Two Glucose Tests Supported for Diabetes at Fairview Clinics Opinion - Autopsy: An Important Quality Assurance Step Physician Lab Orders: Current Terminology OSHA Prohibits Needle Removal and Phlebotomy Tube Holder Reuse Lab Focus - June Urine Microalbumin Reporting Changes Change in Osteocalin Reference Abaton Decommissioning Respiratory Season Closed May 15 Discontinuation of Lab Report Printing , F-UMC, Riverside Campus Laboratory Guide Physician Orders Lab Focus - May Cumulative Summary Reporting Changes at Metro Hospitals New PCR Assay for Chlamydia and gonococcus Specimen Requirement Update on Lymphocyte Antigen and Mitogen Proliferation Troponin Change at Metro Hospitals Implementation of CoPath and HistoTrac Information Systems Lab Focus - January New NCEP Cholesterol Practice Guidelines Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia (HIT) ATPIII Guidelines At-A-Glance Quick Desk Reference 2001 Lab Focus - November Reference Laboratory Selection Bacillus anthracis Basic Laboratory Protocols for the Presumptive Identification of Bacillus anthracis Fairview Metro Clinics Implement New Prothrombin Instrument Lab Focus - August Primidone and Phenobarb Free Serum Anti-Convulsant Levels SUDSÒ HIV-1 Test Returns Aug 1 Needlestick Safety Devices Now Required Electronic Patient Care Orders are Coming! Lab Focus - July Transfusion Guidelines FYI: CO2 or Bicarb? Do You Really Need that Platelet Count with the Hemogram? CSF Electrophoresis Canceled if Oligoclonal Bands Also Ordered Outstanding Functional and Technical LIS Issues Being Addressed PTS Transport Not Ideal for Blood Gases Lab Focus - April Changes in Laboratory Result Reporting at Metro Hospitals Lab Focus - March Rapamycin Assay Now Available Changes to Lupus Inhibitor Testing Free Protein S Replaces Total Protein S Human Papillomavirus Testing as an Aid in the Early Detection of Cervical Carcinoma Lab Focus - January New Laboratory Information System (LIS) Blood Bank: Transfusion Guidelines Revised Antinuclear Antibodies (ANA) Method Change New Highly Sensitive C-Reactive Protein Assay Blood Bank: Pre-Surgical Orders Change in Urine Reporting: Normalization of Values Change in Reporting Bilirubin Fractions: Addition of Delta F-UMC: Bleeding Time Replaced with Platelet Function Test Intact Parathormone Blood Collection Coagulation Tubes Ionized Calcium Unit Clarification Laboratory Request Forms F-UMC: Request Forms Microbiology Specimen Transport Human Papillomavirus Screen and Typing 2000 Lab Focus - November New Referral Laboratories New Lab Information System Laboratory Request Forms Fairview Policies Osmotic Fragility Web Site Changes HCMC Medical Examiner Revised ADA Criteria for Gestational Diabetes1 Blood Components: HCFA Final Rule on Prospective Payment System for Hospital Outpatient Services FAQ’s: Point of Care Testing & JCAHO Quantitative D-Dimer to Replace FDP Specimen Labeling Myoglobin & CK MB To Be Discontinued Lab Focus - February Decrease Platelet Dose at FUMC EDTA Tube Now Standard for Blood Bank Testing Conversion to Frozen Plasma New H pylori Fecal Antigen Test Specimen Requirements New Qualitative D-Dimer Specimen Requirements Standardized Testing for Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus New H pylori Fecal Antigen Test ADA Revised Criteria: Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis and Testing

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