Amendment Information and Courses from MediaLab, Inc.
These are the MediaLab courses that cover Amendment and links to relevant pages within the course.
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| External Quality Control (3) Participation in some sort of proficiency testing program is now required by all accrediting bodies and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA). Because the results must be returned to a testing center for comparison, there is a delay between the time of testing and the receipt of any statistical summary. | View Page |
| What is Non-waived Testing? In 2003, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services published the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment (CLIA).Under CLIA, the term "Non-waived" replaces the terms “Moderate” and “High Complexity” testing. Before a laboratory can report patient results for a non-waived, FDA-approved test for the first time, the laboratory must verify that the test’s performance is similar to the manufacturer’s claims for accuracy, precision, and reportable range.
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