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Standards Implementation

Ensuring Laboratory Excellence

Successful implementation of laboratory standards requires commitment. By providing staff with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools, laboratories can ensure the accuracy and reliability of test results, maintain consistency across sites, enhance safety, improve operational efficiency, better comply with regulatory requirements, and build trust and credibility with clients and partners.

At CLSI, we are ready to help at every step – with education and training programs for new and experienced staff, targeted standards application programs, laboratory assessments, and a variety of implementation guides and resources.

Webinars

Stay Current

With topics ranging from specific standards and new regulatory protocols to panelist discussions featuring applied learnings and open forum Q&A sessions, CLSI webinars are a great way to stay current with laboratory best practice. CLSI members have free or discounted access to webinars and most provide continuing education credits.

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Courses

Build a Solid Foundation

Our eLearning programs provide deeper self-guided education that allow users to progress at their own pace with modular lessons and interactive features. These courses focus on foundational skill sets and targeted areas of specialization and have formalized assessments and certificates for completion as well as continuing education credits.

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Laboratory Training

Set Your Lab Up for Success

Partner with CLSI and let us help your lab prepare for accreditation and regulatory review with proven and trusted hands-on training and mentorship.

We provide assessment services to create a customized program for your lab including in-person, online, and hybrid training in topics including laboratory fundamentals, Quality Management Systems (QMS), validation and verification protocols, risk management, standards implementation, and much more. We are committed to supporting laboratories around the world, helping them to achieve sustainable quality, improve testing outcomes, and deliver better treatment for patients with infectious disease.

Every program we undertake is customized to the specific regulatory requirements and needs of the labs we support through collaboration and customization. With almost 60 years of experience and projects in Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, we are ready to help your lab at any stage!

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Supporting Resources

Tools for Implementation

CLSI does not just define a standard, we provide guidance for how to implement the best practices with step-by-step instructions, interactive worksheets, forms, and database tools, and many other supporting resources. Our goal is to ensure successful implementation; facilitate communication between laboratories, manufacturers, and providers; and support improved diagnosis and treatment through test utilization, management and risk assessment. See how we can help you.

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Technical Tools

Badges, CE Credits, & Certificates

CLSI is an approved provider of continuing education programs by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) P.A.C.E.© program.

In addition to CE credits, CLSI offers certificates and badges for completion of its education and training programs. Enhance your and your team’s reputation by demonstrating proficiency!

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Global Commitment

CLSI turned its attention to supporting global laboratories, especially in under-resourced regions of the world, more than thirty years ago. We have partnered with a variety of hospitals and labs around the world, helping to accelerate professional development, regulatory compliance, and international accreditation. We have local expertise and work with clients to customize programs that meet their specific needs.

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Case Study

Hear from Our Members and Partners

Our case studies offer practical examples of how labs, health systems, clinics, and countries have successfully implemented guidelines, overcome challenges, and achieved improvements in testing accuracy and efficiency.

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Featured Case Study

Kazakhstan Laboratories Modernize With CLSI's Help

In 2014, CLSI worked with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Healthcare and Social Development of Kazakhstan and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Foundation to launch the Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program (FELTP), a network of modern labs that follow international laboratory standards and provide reliable and trustworthy results.

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Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

CDC Issues Health Alert for Extensively Drug Resistant Shigella

The CDC has issued a health alert for extensively drug resistant shigella.

Quality Management

Do You Know the Cost of Quality in Your Lab?

Most laboratories use methods such as QC, equipment calibration measurement, QA measurements of process performance, and more recently, implementation of a quality management system, to determine the quality of examination results and laboratory services.

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

COVID-19 and Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Pandemics

As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, many lessons are being learned, not the least of which is how to better prepare for future pandemics. This includes addressing the ongoing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) pandemic, which at a global scale has the potential to eclipse COVID-19.