225734 Models for laboratory performance improvement

Monday, November 8, 2010

Bertina Su, MPH , Laboratory System and Standards, Association of Public Health Laboratories, Silver Spring, MD
This session will highlight examples of laboratory performance improvement initiatives as captured by the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). Past participants and future candidates of the Laboratory System Improvement Program (L-SIP) convened to share and discuss quality improvement activities that were identified during their assessments or from follow-up activities. These activities were used as examples for how to develop a system quality improvement plan. This session will show how these examples can be used by other laboratory systems to develop a quality improvement plan. Additionally, APHL conducted an online survey of past participants of L-SIP to capture their post-assessment quality improvement activities. The findings from this survey will be shared.

Learning Areas:
Conduct evaluation related to programs, research, and other areas of practice
Systems thinking models (conceptual and theoretical models), applications related to public health

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe how the APHL Laboratory System Improvement Program identifies activities used to build a system quality improvement plan. 2. Name examples of practical quality improvement applications and how they are used in a public health laboratory system.

Keywords: Quality Improvement, Infrastructure

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to present because I am a Specialist of Public Health Programs and responsible for APHL's Laboratory System Improvement Program.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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