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White paper: Care Considerations for Inclusion of Gender Diversity within Medical Laboratory Services

Accreditation

Why Become an Accredited Facility?

Benefits of ISO 15189 Plus

Position Statements (Documents de principe)

Impartiality and Operating Principles
Accreditation Service Provision
Categorization Non-conformances (Catégorisation des non-conformités)
Extension of Certificate Expiration Date
Inter-laboratory Comparison Surveillance in Accreditation (Surveillance des comparaisons interlaboratoires par l’Accréditation)
IQMH Participation in ILAC and APAC
ISO 15189 Plus™ Accreditation Cycle
Traceability Accreditation Requirements (Exigences relatives à l'accréditation concernant la traçabilité)
Transfers of Accreditation to IQMH
Remote Surveillance Assessments
Use of Symbol and Claims of Accreditation Status (Utilisation de symbole et revendication de statut d’accréditation)

Guides

Participant Steps to Accreditation
Guidance for Creating a Diagnostic Service Quality Manual (Conseils pour la création d’un manuel qualité pour service de diagnostic)

Forms

Accreditation Complaint Form (Formulaire de plainte d'accréditation)

Echocardiography Quality Improvement Program

CorHealth Memoranda

CorHealth COVID-19 Cardiac Memo #13 - Recommendations for an Ontario Approach to Resuming Echocardiographic Services during COVID-19
CorHealth COVID-19 Cardiac Memo #2 – Recommendations for an Ontario Approach to Provision of Hospital Echocardiography Services During COVID-19
CorHealth COVID-19 Cardiac Memo #5 - Recommendations for an Ontario Approach to Provision of Non-Hospital Echocardiography Services During COVID-19
CorHealth COVID-19 Cardiac Memo #11 - Recommendations for an Ontario Approach to Triaging Echocardiographic Services During
COVID-19

Proficiency Testing

References

Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci reported by Laboratories to Quality Management Program — Laboratory Services in Ontario from 2000 to 2012
Recommendations from the Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Laboratory Best Practices Working Group

Posters

Accuracy and Precision of Cholesterol, Triglycerides and HDL-Cholesterol Methods: A Retrospective Assessment of Quality
Analytical Performance of Creatinine Methods: A Proficiency Testing Provider Perspective
Bone Marrow Sample Preparation and Processing: An IQMH Survey on Laboratory Practices
Challenges faced by laboratories in differentiating between non-neoplastic, reactive lymphocytes and abnormal lymphocytes, neoplastic in a blood smear
Clinical chemistry sample interferences reporting patterns in Ontario laboratories
Discordant Finding and Error Types Observed in Urine Drug Screens: An External Quality Assessment Program Perspective
How are laboratories in Ontario reporting lithium for therapeutic drug monitoring
How modern is your lab? (oral presentation)
How modern is your lab?
Immunophenotyping for Lymphoproliferative Disorders in Canada
Introducing immature granulocytes (IG) in a proficiency testing program as a new parameter on automated hematology analyzers
IQMH Laboratory Practices for Manual Blood Film Review
Patterns-of-Practice survey demonstrates the need for national guidelines regarding the implementation of microbiology point-of-care tests across Canada (oral presentation)
Patterns-of-Practice survey demonstrates the need for national guidelines regarding the implementation of microbiology point-of-care tests across Canada
Practice Patterns in Gynecological and Non-Gynecological Cytopathology: Findings from 2009-16 Surveys of Ontario Laboratories
Precision performance and error types observed in the point-of-care glucose testing: an external quality assessment program perspective
Setting Appropriate Precision Limits in Routine Hematology
Survey of quality assurance practices and clinical locations for POC glucose meter testing in Canada hospitals
Use of Biological Variation for Establishing and Harmonizing Performance Limits for Clinical Chemistry Proficiency Testing Programs
Use of the reference change value concept in comparison of two results from blind identical proficiency testing samples

Reports

Antimicrobial Resistance in Common Hospital Pathogens in Ontario

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