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This course provides CME credit and is only for individuals that are eligible for CME credit (physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses). All others should register for the course under the Laboratory Training category where the course is offered for
P.A.C.E. credit.
Intended audience and scope of practice: This online educational activity has been designed to meet the needs of physicians operating an office laboratory; healthcare professionals working as medical laboratory staff in nonwaived diagnostic laboratories, including testing personnel, technical consultants, supervisors, and laboratory directors.This course examines the CLIA requirements for quality assessment that apply to clinical laboratories and discusses ways to achieve and document compliance. This course explains the following topics: quality systems, quality assessment, the QA plan and its implementation, and regulatory compliance. The course includes a glossary and links to additional resources.At the conclusion of this course, the learner will be able to:
- Illustrate the process of Quality Assessment (QA)
- Differentiate between QC and QA
- Summarize the concept of Quality Systems
- Outline the quality systems that require QA reviews
- Design a QA plan that meets the requirements
- Summarize the benefits of a QA plan
- Formulate an effective QA review process
- Implement a QA plan
- Maintain the required QA documentation
This CME activity has been designed to change learner competence and focuses on the American Board of Medical Specialties areas of patient care, practice-based learning and systems-based practice.
This enduring material activity, Laboratory Director CME Program, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 20.00 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Term of approval begins 10/1/2016. Term of approval is for one year from this date. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This individual course, Quality Assessment Basics, is 1.5 CME credits.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed, not as Category 1.
This course will take 1.5 hours to complete and there are no prerequisites. A credit certificate will be issued upon completion of the course evaluation and post-test with a score of 80% or better.
Release Date: 10/1/2016
Expiration Date: 10/1/2017
Module 1
- Introduction to Quality Assessment
- Introduction to the QA Plan
- Module 1 Graded Exam
Module 2
- Developing a QA Plan
- Implementing a QA Plan
- Module 2 Graded Exam
- Resources
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It is the policy of the AAFP and COLA Resources, Inc. that the faculty, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this CME activity disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial interests* in order to allow CME staff to identify and resolve any potential conflicts of interest. Faculty must also disclose any planned discussions of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation(s). For this educational activity all conflicts of interests have been resolved and detailed disclosures are listed below:
Author: Cynthia Cardelino, MLT(ASCP), MT(HEW)
No relevant financial relationships to disclose, No discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs/devices during presentation.
Activity Planner: Verlin K. Janzen, MD, FAAFP
No relevant financial relationships to disclose, No discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs/devices during presentation.
* The ACCME defines a commercial interest as any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests.