WAYNE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Managing nonconforming events is an integral part of continuous quality improvement, which maximizes patient safety and advances quality initiatives. The value of a program to manage nonconforming events is to balance time spent on event reporting, event analysis, and implementing interventions.
Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS) has recently published a new guideline, Management of Nonconforming Laboratory Events; Proposed Guideline (GP32-P), which provides an application example for the laboratory to develop a program for detecting, documenting, investigating, analyzing, and following up on events that do not conform with established policies, processes, and procedures (occurrence management).
