Laboratory Industry Report

As Congress takes aim at revamping health care, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are launching an effort to establish best practices in laboratory medicine. Called the Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP) project, the goal is to provide evidence-based methods that laboratory professionals can use to evaluate practice effectiveness for improving the quality of health care, to build a more robust knowledge base for the field based on the results of systematic evidence reviews, and to improve health care quality outcomes by identifying pre- and post-analytic practices that effectively improve the use laboratory testing.