| Subject: | CMS Issues Alert for Laboratories |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Thu, 8 Jun 2006 - 10:00 am |
| CMS, which administers the Clinical Laboratory Improvement (CLIA) program, recently became aware of testing circumstances that may produce erroneous results. One laboratory was identified where an operator incorrectly used a well-known pipetting system to perform HIV testing with an FDA approved HIV-1 kit that requires a micro sample of specimen. This combination, as well as poor pipetting technique, caused questionable test results. This laboratory used a root cause analysis to identify its... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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