What is the best source of help for writing a procedure manual for microbiology?
A. The CLSI publication GP2, Clinical Laboratory Technical Procedure Manuals, provides guidelines for writing procedures. The ASM’s Clinical Microbiology Procedures Handbook (contact Hardy Diagnostics for latest edition) provides hundreds of procedures, all written in the approved CLSI format, and is available in a three ring binder. All of our technical information sheets, located in our software program HUGO™, are written in the recommended CLSI format so they can be used in your manual.