Links

Clinical Laboratory

CLSI (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.