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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 42, 790-796, Copyright © 1996 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

A critical review of personnel standards

KM Peddecord
Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University, USA. mpeddeco@mail.sdsu.edu

Qualified personnel are necessary to ensure quality results, but there is no evidence on what minimal educational requirements are necessary. In the future, cost-effectiveness analysis may be useful for policy questions such as the utility of personnel regulations. CLIA '88 regulations require explicit assessment of personnel competency. Survey evidence suggests that previously regulated laboratories tend to have highly formalized competency assessment programs, while physician office laboratory programs are minimal. Responding laboratory supervisors had no uniform definition of competency, but technical abilities, productivity, and professionalism were regarded as essential. Suggestions for contemporary strategies by laboratory professionals and their organizations in the current increasingly competitive managed care environment are described. Faced with limited empirical evidence on personnel, laboratory directors and supervisors should focus on the total testing process, the needs of clinicians, and the uses of testing information to guide personnel assignments.


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