tailieunhanh - Laboratory Medicine Best Practices: Developing an Evidence-Based Review and Evaluation Process

While discussing traditional health practices and medical knowledge, one could expect elders to give a list of the best techniques to cure sickness depending on the various types of health problems or injuries they were facing in the past: how to deal with boils, infections, fever, eye infections, colds, broken bones, drowning, and so on. But the Inuit perspective encompasses much more. Along with techniques to heal cuts and wounds, and to cure discussed recollections of how to have a strong mind and a resilient body It is important to make clear that in Inuit societies medical knowledge never. | Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Developing an Evidence-Based Review and Evaluation Process Final Technical Report 2007 Phase I oV hbait . Department of Health and Human Services centers for Disease Control and Prevention SAFER HEALTHIER PEOPLE Acknowledgments The following report represents the collective efforts of many people dedicated to improving the quality of laboratory medicine. The authors would like to recognize several people whose support guidance expertise and commitment have made it possible to develop an evidence-based process for identifying best practices. Many people at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC and the . Department of Health and Human Services HHS have been committed to the development of this process. They include the exceptional project oversight and content contributions of Julie R. Taylor PhD and the content expertise and support of D. Joe Boone PhD Devery Howerton PhD Emily S. Reese MPH and CDC consultant Linda McKibben MD MPH. We are extremely grateful to the Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Workgroup members for their time and dedication to this process. Their thoughtful consideration of each step in the process coupled with their commitment to improving laboratory medicine was fundamental in developing Phase I of this process. We extend our appreciation to Raj Behal MD MPH Nancy Elder MD MSPH John Fontanesi PhD Julie Gayken MT aSCP Cyril Kim Hetsko MD FACP Lee Hilborne MD MPH Michael Laposata MD PhD James Nichols PhD Mary Nix MS MT ASCP SBB Stephen Raab MD Fatema Salam MPH and Ann Watt MBA. We also appreciate the contributions of our two ex-officio members Sousan S. Altaie PhD and James A. Cometa. Expert guidance on laboratory services was provided by Diana Mass MA MT ASCP CLS NCA consultant to Battelle Memorial Institute. Administrative support was provided by Alessandra Favoretto Eileen Miles Susan Pearce and Lynne Jones. Editorial and graphic design assistance were provided by Denise Williams and Kate