Setting guidelines for laboratory quality standards across the Greater Toronto Area: a LMP Quality Council workshop
Although standards and protocols in laboratories are very high, they can be inconsistent between laboratories.
Harmonization of clinical laboratories’ quality systems across the region can reduce this variation, which is fundamental to ensuring improved patient safety and care. Appropriate laboratory utilization is also important to improve patient care and safety, as well as to reduce unnecessary testing and healthcare costs.
The Quality Council, based in the Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology (LMP), in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, seeks to bring together the hospital-based laboratory community across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) to compare, share, and harmonize standards and approaches to testing.
Join a workshop to discuss quality systems and guidelines
Join the LMP Quality Council to hear the latest information on each project and contribute to the discussions and guidelines.
You can join the whole event, or just the session you are interested in.
Agenda
Each session will be followed by a 15-minute break.
08:30 - 08:45: Introduction and welcome by LMP Quality Council. Setting and Harmonizing Quality Standards in Clinical Laboratories Across the GTA. Khosrow Adeli, LMP Vice-Chair, Quality
08:45 - 09:45: Clinical Laboratory Quality Indicators and harmonization across the GTA hospitals. Presentation by the project taskforce members followed by Q&A. Paul Yip and Corwyn Roswell
10:00 - 11:00: Appropriate laboratory test utilization to enhance patient safety and reduce waste. Presentation by the project taskforce members followed by Q&A. Michelle Sholzberg and Daniel Beriault
11:15 - 12:15: Harmonization of critical values across the GTA hospitals. Presentation by the project taskforce members followed by Q&A. Felix Leung and Elaine Goh
12:15 - 12:30: Final comments and close