CEO SUMMARY: Most laboratory professionals don’t know it yet, but significant changes occurred to the entire lab industry last week. After Quest Diagnostics Incorporated acknowledged that it was retesting tens of thousands of patients because 7% of the Vitamin D results it reported during an 18-month period were inaccurate, a blitz of newspaper headlines and […]
Inaccurate Results + Quest Dominates News Cycle
From the New York Times to CCN News, Quest’s Inaccurate Vitamin D testing is a big story
- By R. Lewis Dark
- > From the Volume XVI No. 1 - January 12, 2009 Issue
- Tags: blood tests, cap, clia, clinical lab, Clinical Laboratory, clinical testing, cytology laboratory, dark report, ehi, genetic test, genetic testing, hie, lab executive, lab industry, lab medicine, lab test, lab testing, laboratory company, laboratory industry, laboratory medicine, laboratory organization, laboratory science, laboratory scientists, laboratory test, laboratory testing, ldt, mass spec, mass spectrometry, medical lab, Medical laboratory, medical laboratory scientist, medical laboratory scientists, molecular diagnostic, pathologists, personalized medicine, quality assurance, quality control, reduce operational costs, tandem mass spectrometry, the clinical laboratory, the dark report, the future of laboratory medicine, the laboratory
