Proficiency Testing Web-Education

The CTS PT Committee developed this PT Web Education site to further assist CTS enrollees in ABG, Electrolytes, and CO-Ox proficiency testing and quality lung patient care These key sites granted permission to CTS for the linkage.

STANDARDS AND PRACTICE GUIDELINES SITES:

• American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC): www.aarc.org/
• American Journal of Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine (AJRCCM): http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/
• American Thoracic Society (ATS): www.thoracic.org/
• NCCLS (formerly National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards): www.nccls.org/

REGULATORY AND ACCREDITATION SITES:

•  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): www.phppo.cdc.gov/clia/default.asp
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): www.cms.hhs.gov/clia
• Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) Program: click here
  • CLIA Regulations Part 493 Most current (5/8/06 - Includes all changes through 1/24/04): links to CDC Site www.phppo.cdc.gov/clia/regs/toc.asp
  • CLIA information for calibration and calibration verification:http://www.cms.hhs.gov/CLIA/05_CLIA_Brochures.asp#TopOfPage, scroll down and click on Brochure #3 for pdf otem
  • State Survey Agencies (CLIA contact list): www.cms.hhs.gov/CLIA/downloads/CLIA SA.pdf
• Food and Drug Administration (listing or waived, moderate complexity and high complexity tests):www.fda.gov/cdrh/CLIA/index.html
• Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA): www.osha.gov/
• College of American Pathologists (CAP): www.cap.org/
• Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation (COLA): www.cola.org/
• Joint Commission of Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO): www.jcaho.org/

CEU EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES:

• COLA and University of Wisconsin On-Line Education (Sharon Ehermeyer, PhD, Ronald H. Leassig PhD et al):http://www.labuniversity.org/
• Westgard’s QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories Copyright Westgard [available on CD]:www.westgard.com/aaccorse.htm
  • Multirule and Westgard Rules: www.westgard.com/mltirule.htm
  • Hypothesis Testing, Tests Of Significance, And Confidence Intervals (Madelon F. Zady, EdD):www.westgard.com/lesson37.htm
  • QC–The Levey-Jennings Control Chart (Patricia L. Barry, BS, MT (ASCP)):www.westgard.com/lesson12.htm
  • QP–11: Blood Gas Applications: www.westgard.com/lesson59.htm

OTHER EDUCATIONAL SITES:

• Altitude Sickness and Atmospheric Pressure: www-personal.usyd.edu.au/~gerhard/pressure.html
• American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP): www.chestnet.org/
• Association of Polysomnographic Technologists (APT): www.aptweb.org/
• Mad Scientist Software: www.madscientistsoftware.com/
• Blood Gases copyrighted works by Bruce Argyle, MD: www.madscientistsoftware.com/manu/indexgas.htm
• National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC): www.namdrc.org/
• Oxygen Saturations at Altitude, Copyright Thomas E. Dietz, MD: www.high-altitude-medicine.com/SaO2-table.html
• Society for Critical Care Medicine (SCCM): www.sccm.org/
• Virtual Hospital: www.vh.org/
• CLIA and the Physician’s Office Laboratory: A Computer-Assisted CME Course:www.vh.org/Providers/CME/CLIA/CLIAHP.html