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Evidence-based medicine as applied to laboratory medicine for laboratorians, clinicians, and other related health professionals working in the laboratory sciences.

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• Challenges for Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine

  http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/47/8/1536.full
  Discussion of evidence-based medicine as it applies particularly to laboratory medicine.

• Evidence in Action: Applying Evidence-Based Methods to Laboratory Medicine Decision-Making

  http://www.aacc.org/resourcecenters/archivedprograms/expert_access/2010/March/Pages/default.aspx#
  Downloadable presentation (PDF) on how to use evidence-based methodology to improve decision making in laboratory medicine. Developed through the CDC's Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP) Initiative. 2010.

• Evidence-Based Guidelines in Laboratory Medicine: Principles and Methods

  http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/50/5/806.full
  Presents a ten-step process, and a set of criteria, for the development of evidence-based laboratory guidelines.

• Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799218/
  A special edition of the Clinical Biochemist Reviews providing an overview of the potentials and limitations of evidence-based practice in laboratory medicine. [2013]

• Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine in Oncology Drug Development: From Biomarkers to Diagnostics

  http://clinchem.aaccjnls.org/content/59/1/102.full
  A review of the techniques of systematic biomarker assessments for anticancer drugs and their development, including pharmacodynamic, response, predictive and safety markers. [2013]

• Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine: Is It Working in Practice?

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284339/
  Critical review of techniques and challenges of applying evidence-based methodology to laboratory medicine. From The Clinical Biochemist Reviews, 2012.

• Guidelines for guideline developers: a systematic review of grading systems for medical tests

  http://implementationscience.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1748-5908-8-78
  Compares and evaluates five distinct grading systems (EGAPP, USPSTF, NICE, GRADE, and NHMRC) for medical tests on how they use evidence in guideline development. [2013]

• Laboratory Evidence Based Medicine

  http://www.aacc.org/resourcecenters/resource_topics/ebm/Pages/default.aspx
  Categorized evidence-based resource collection, with several specific to laboratory science, from the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC).

• Laboratory Medicine Best Practices

  http://dn3g20un7godm.cloudfront.net/2011/AM11SA/119.pdf
  Comprehensive side presentation on developing and applying systematic evidence review and evaluation methods for quality improvement in laboratory medicine. From the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), 2011.

• “Appropriate” diagnostic testing: supporting diagnostics with evidence-based medicine and shared decision making

  http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/922
  Argues that the paradigm of evidence-based medicine should be complemented by the paradigm of shared decision making to decide the advantages and risks of a diagnostic test. [2014]

 

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