CLSI X4-R-2003
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Planning for Challenges to Clinical Laboratory Operations During a Disaster
| Published By | Publication Date | Number of Pages |
| CLSI | 2003 | 52 |
This guide provides direction for assessing nonanalytic
(operational) system components of both clinical and public health
testing that may be impaired or at risk of failure in various
natural and man-made disasters. Although certain aspects of the
report focus upon emergency operational challenges confronting
hospital-based laboratories, guidance for clinical laboratories
residing in physicians' offices, medical centers, and reference
(independent) laboratories is also provided. With this document,
these institutions have a framework to implement a team responsible
for reviewing the infrastructures that support both clinical and
public health laboratory testing and result reporting. System
components that may be affected include:
– test ordering and receipt by the laboratory/phlebotomy
team
– patient specimen acquisition and identification
– computer functions
– specimen transportation to the laboratory
– staffing
– analysis
– test result reporting
– reagents and supplies
– usual internal institutional partners for testing support
– test referral, specimen packaging and transportation, and
communication to external reference laboratories
– reporting tests of public health importance
– transportation of isolates for public health testing
– communication with the public health laboratory for
epidemiologic surveillance
– morgue operations
