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Clinical Laboratory
NCCLS - The
standards organization for laboratory testing Now called CLSI.
Clinical Chemistry - Articles
about laboratory medicine.
CLIA - The
clinical laboratory improvement act.
SI Conversion Factors
- A Javascript calculator to convert to and from SI units (from Jay
Clinical Services).
Lab Software Links
- Links to free and commercial laboratory evaluation software.
Lab Tests - General
information about lab tests prepared by several professional societies.
Westgard - Opinions by a long time
contributor in quality control for clinical chemistry.
Consort - Standards
groups to improve clinical trials including
STARD
(improving the diagnostic accuracy of tests).
Regulatory
AdvaMed - formerly HIMA, an
industry advocate group.
ISO -
International Standards Organization.
Guidance document
from FDA (CDRH) on software validation.
FDA Enforcement Report
- published weekly by the Food and Drug Administration
a2la - American Association for
Laboratory Accreditation.
http://www.fdanews.com/ - News
from the FDA
Reliability
FMEA - Provides information
about Failure mode Effects Analysis
RAMS - Information about the annual
meeting for reliability and maintainability.
Boston IEEE
Reliability Chapter - Boston area meetings about reliability.
MDDI FMEA
Article - Describes problems with ISO 14971, advocates using fault
trees with FMEA and recommends against detection in rankings (e.g., just use
severity and probability)
Patient Safety
MedWatch - FDA's main site
for alerts and recalls
Crossing the quality
chasm - On line book about quality in health care by the Institute
of medicine.
MMWR - CDC's Weekly
Morbidity and Mortality Report.
National Patient Safety Foundation - Discussions about patient
safety
Other
FreeMedicalJornals.com - A site that provides lists of free online
medical journals, books, and articles sorted by topic.
http://www.medrants.com/index.php - General blog about medical
topics from a prolific internist.
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