Documenting Clinical Microbiology Impact: Basic Concepts for Designing Clinical Studies and Outcome Research Using Principles of Biostatistics

While most clinical laboratorians do not consider themselves part of a formal clinical research group, many quality improvement projects and method verification studies are, or should be, performed with the rigor of scientific research, even if the project intent is not research. When describing pilot results for business plans and for documenting laboratory impact for interdisciplinary committees, planning for scientific rigor will prove to be very valuable. Clinical, operational, and quality improvement studies in laboratory medicine and clinical microbiology are becoming more data driven, outcome oriented, and evidence based.
Source: Clinical Microbiology Newsletter - Category: Microbiology Authors: Source Type: news