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Article: How to follow the rules for patient test management. (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) (Coping With CLIA)
- Article from:
- Medical Laboratory Observer
- Article date:
- January 1, 1993
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A process that laboratorians have come to take for granted must now be formalized to prove compliance with CLIA '88.
THE RULES implementing the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA '88) require each laboratory to establish comprehensive and efficient procedures for patient specimen testing from A to Z--that is, from test request through result reporting. These rules are included under the sections related to patient test management (|Secs~493.1101-.1111, pp. 7162-7163) of the Feb. 28, 1992, Federal Register. In these sections the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) presents in detail the rules for the preanalytical through post-analytical ...