Understanding Test Accuracy: Dealing with Discordance

Presentation Description / Summary: Your clients rely on you for the best patient care, and you rely on diagnostic tests to yield trustworthy, accurate results. But biology isn’t always reliable, and machines sometimes misbehave! Join us to increase your lab expertise and decrease your stress. Learn how to troubleshoot analytical errors and make sense of wonky patient results as we apply principles of lab test performance, laboratory quality assurance and control, and sources of laboratory error to clinical practice, so you can make diagnostic and treatment decisions with less angst for a better night’s sleep.

Learner Outcomes: 1. Review quality assurance and quality control procedures to obtain most reliable diagnostic test results. 2. Introduce concepts in assessing diagnostic test performance, including test validation, reference ranges, coefficient of variation, etc. 3. Learn to troubleshoot discordant patient results.