What is Considered "Evidence"?

How to Subscribe
MLS & MLT Comprehensive CE Package
Includes 176 CE courses, most popular
$109Add to cart
Pick Your Courses
Up to 8 CE hours
$55Add to cart
Individual course$25Add to cart
Need multiple seats for your university or lab? Get a quote
The page below is a sample from the LabCE course Evidence-Based Practice Applied to the Clinical Laboratory. Access the complete course and earn ASCLS P.A.C.E.-approved continuing education credits by subscribing online.

Learn more about Evidence-Based Practice Applied to the Clinical Laboratory (online CE course)
What is Considered "Evidence"?

Imagine that you supervise an immunology laboratory and you wish to propose that the current slide-based ANA lab test be retired. Instead, you would like to convert to a new, high-throughput automated ENA test. This change would have a great impact on primary care clinicians as well as any rheumatologists who use your laboratory services. Such a change will no doubt require that you present evidence for your proposal to clinicians and other stakeholders. Evidence includes data and information on your proposed test or method that have been gathered from sources that are deemed credible. These sources are usually articles or publications that have undergone a peer-review process.
Examples include:
  • Peer reviewed published research
  • Academic works, such as theses and dissertations
  • Professional journals
  • Academic journals
  • Government agency documents, reports, or protocols (CMS, CDC, FDA, Department of Health, etc.)
  • Technical documents
  • Case studies