Assessing Clinical Microbiology Practice Guidelines: American Society for Microbiology
            <i>Ad Hoc</i>
            Committee on Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines Assessment

Nachamkin, Irving; Kirn, T.; Westblade, Lars F.; Humphries, Romney M.

doi:10.1128/jcm.01124-17

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“…The American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has recognized the need to provide evidence-based guidelines to allow clinical microbiology laboratories to mature in the new health care environment. In recent years, the ASM Committee on Evidence-based Medicine has partnered with the CDC and its A-6 methodology in systematically reviewing, analyzing, and appraising up-to-date published literature on the application of laboratory methods for inclusion in evidence-based laboratory practice guidelines ( 13 ). Optimization of such guidelines rests on utilization of evidence from well-designed and well-performed studies.…”

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confidence: 99%

Designing Studies Acceptable for Abstraction and Inclusion in Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice Guidelines

2019

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Expansion of technologies, changing infrastructure, and dwindling resources have produced the need for health care reform and changes in clinical laboratories. The health care model will have to shift increasingly from a fee-for-service model to a value-based model. Laboratories will have to focus more on evidence-based outcome studies evaluating the effects of their preanalytical and postanalytical practices on real patient outcomes. Although well-designed clinical trials and multicenter studies are needed to determine the effects of laboratory processes on outcomes, there has been concern that too few well-designed studies have been published. To help improve the quality of study design and to facilitate reporting transparency, several method statements have been developed. The Standards for Reporting of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (STARD) initiative was recently updated, listing 30 items deemed crucial for transparent reporting of studies, thereby allowing the creation of a robust database for clinical practice guidelines. Three methods describing the assessment of the quality of data on which to base recommendations for such guidelines are also available. Close attention must be given to study design so that parameters ensuring study quality are met, thereby allowing inclusion of the study data in the formulation of evidence-based laboratory best practices guidelines.

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Designing Studies Acceptable for Abstraction and Inclusion in Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice Guidelines

2019

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Evaluation of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) guidelines using the AGREE II instrument

Sousa¹,

Albuquerque²,

Ribeiro³

et al. 2018

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

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The American Society for Microbiology collaboration with the CDC Laboratory Medicine Best Practices initiative for evidence-based laboratory medicine

Weissfeld,

Baselski,

Cornish

et al. 2024

Clin Microbiol Rev

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SUMMARY Clinical medicine has embraced the use of evidence for patient treatment decisions; however, the evaluation strategy for evidence in laboratory medicine practices has lagged. It was not until the end of the 20th century that the Institute of Medicine (IOM), now the National Academy of Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Laboratory Systems (CDC DLS), focused on laboratory tests and how testing processes can be designed to benefit patient care. In collaboration with CDC DLS, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) used an evidence review method developed by the CDC DLS to develop a program for creating laboratory testing guidelines and practices. The CDC DLS method is called the Laboratory Medicine Best Practices (LMBP) initiative and uses the A-6 cycle method. Adaptations made by ASM are called Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines (EBLMPG). This review details how the ASM Systematic Review (SR) Processes were developed and executed collaboratively with CDC’s DLS. The review also describes the ASM transition from LMBP to the organization’s current EBLMPG, maintaining a commitment to working with agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other partners to ensure that EBLMPG evidence is readily understood and consistently used.

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Assessing Clinical Microbiology Practice Guidelines: American Society for Microbiology Ad Hoc Committee on Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines Assessment

Cited by 4 publications

References 22 publications

Designing Studies Acceptable for Abstraction and Inclusion in Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice Guidelines

Designing Studies Acceptable for Abstraction and Inclusion in Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice Guidelines

Evaluation of Noninvasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) guidelines using the AGREE II instrument

The American Society for Microbiology collaboration with the CDC Laboratory Medicine Best Practices initiative for evidence-based laboratory medicine

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