Dear Colleagues,
The next IFCC webinar: "Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine and inappropriate Laboratory Testing" will be held on July 5, 2023.
The laboratory assists in 60-70% of all clinical decision and its goal is to provide information that is useful in clinical decision making and to prevent cases where incorrect interpretation leads to poor patient outcomes. Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been described as the “conscientious, explicit and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients”. It involves the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. Evidence-based laboratory medicine (EBLM) focuses on the evaluation and use of laboratory tests to improve patient outcomes. It assists clinical management by integrating the best available research evidence for the use of laboratory investigations with the physician’s clinical expertise and the needs, expectations and concerns of patients. This leads to improved care and outcomes of individual patients and the effective use of healthcare resources. Worryingly, a large percentage of laboratory tests requested are unwarranted or inappropriate leading amongst others, to increased costs, unnecessary followup testing, wasted resources and patient anxiety. There are many reasons for this inappropriate testing and numerous interventions have been suggested. As laboratory professionals, it is our duty to educate our clients (clinicians and patients) about appropriate laboratory testing and tackle this problem. The C-EBLM has recently made the appropriate use of laboratory testing one of their focus areas.
This webinar comprises of three following presentations of 20 min each followed by 20 min of panel discussion at the end.
Chair: Prof. Andrew Don-Wauchope
Talk 1- 'Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine and Demand Management - An Introduction' Dr. Tim Lang
Talk 2- 'Direct to consumer testing. Can patient driven testing co-exist with evidence based medicine?' Prof. Karina Rodriguez-Capote
Talk 3- 'Inappropriate utilization of laboratory tests - can clinical decision algorithms help?' Dr Hayley Sharrod-Cole
- Time Zones: Live presentations starting at: 9:00AM EDT-New York ; 3:00PM CET-Rome; 9:00PM CST-Beijing;
Important: Please ensure that you carefully determine the time that the presentation will start in your global time zone. Click here to convert to your time-zone. - Recorded webinar: available on demand
- Certificate of participation: available for all registrants
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