Jul 10, 2018
Diagnostic errors in medicine continue to be a large problem for effective healthcare delivery. As a result, moderate and severe consequences from the errors, including death, account for 75% of diagnostic errors in the United States. “Interventions That Can Help Reduce Diagnostic Errors” was published in the July...
Jul 2, 2018
Conventional approaches to drug testing rely on a primary screening step followed by a secondary confirmation. Best practice dictates that the secondary confirmation step utilize a separate methodology than the initial screening step and have improved sensitivity and specificity. This approach is widely utilized in...
Jul 2, 2018
The rapid rise in the prevalence of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs has contributed significantly to an increase in overdose death rates in North America. Laboratories, healthcare providers, and government agencies struggle to effectively detect and reduce negative outcomes associated with fentanyl use in the absence of...