If Laboratory Medicine Best Practices recommends “Best Practices,” will systems, through government action or accrediation surveys, be required to adopt those practices?
A. CDC does not recommend “Best Practices,” but aims to be a guarantor of the process by which the independent body makes its conclusions and determination based upon a transparent assessment of the available evidence. While the LMBP Initiative’s long-term goal is to see effective, evidence-based practices more widely adopted, CDC’s role is to make information available concerning ways of achieving demonstrable improvements in patient safety and healthcare quality.
