Shorts on Standards

The College of the American Pathologists has 30 official liaisons to various organizations who attend scientific meetings or designate others to do so. They report to the Standards Committee, which reports to the Council on Scientific Affairs.

The following are summaries of liaison reports that appeared in CAP TODAY's Shorts on Standards.

• Standard provides labs with predefined LOINC codes for IVD tests (February 2019)
• Establishing cutoffs, reference ranges for biofluid biomarkers in Alzheimer’s disease: Reference materials and reference measurement procedures (October 2018)
• Recommendations for investigating liver chemistry abnormalities are unworkable (October 2017; PDF, 54 KB)
• Anatomic pathology 'practitioner'? Emerging roles for the cytotechnologist (January 2015)
• Update on the Frontier of NGS(July 2016)
• Nanotechnology in the Clinical Laboratory (January 2016; PDF, 168 KB)
• Practice Parameters for Perioperative Blood Management (December 2015; PDF, 156 KB)
• Biomarkers Consortium and Next-Gen Sequencing(August 2012; PDF, 3.4 MB)