scholarly journals Annual Meeting of the Royal Belgian Society of Laboratory Medicine: “Women’s health: from puberty to menopause”

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Belgian Society

Bridging the Gap With Choosing Wisely Recommendations: What Laboratory Topics Matter Most to Other Medical Specialty Societies?

2019 ◽  
Vol 152 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S143-S143
Author(s):  
Barbara Caldwell
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Pap Smear ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Choosing Wisely ◽  
Topic Area ◽  
Medical Specialties ◽  
Smear Testing

Abstract Introduction This study sought to evaluate the nature and frequency of laboratory recommendations made by medical societies other than ASCP. Methods Review of all 2012 to 2018 ABIM Choosing Wisely (CW) non-ASCP laboratory recommendations and categorization of recommendations per topic area. Results There are 107 total recommendations made by other medical specialties that involve laboratory medicine. The most common recommendations are (1) Transfusion Medicine: to minimize transfusion of PRCs (19 recommendations, 18%); (2) Women’s Health: Pap smear testing, other women’s health testing (18 recommendations, 17%); and (3) General Laboratory: reducing repetitive routine laboratory tests (10 recommendations, 9%). Most (64, 60%) recommendations addressed screening while 29 (27%) focused on treatment and 14 (13%) were related to monitoring disease. Conclusion Almost one-half (44%) of all recommendations fell into three common areas and there were more recommendations related to screening for disease than for treatment or monitoring. For Choosing Wisely to achieve increasing success, increasing efforts are needed to disseminate this information, promote multidisciplinary effective test utilization, and encourage continued laboratory medicine recommendations from all medical stakeholders.

scholarly journals biotechnet Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-224
Author(s):  
Marc E. Pfeifer ◽  
Dieter Ulrich
Keyword(s):  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Diagnostic Testing ◽  
Laboratory Medicine ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
Rapid Testing ◽  
Conference Center

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised in 2020 an unprecedented need for diagnostic testing, especially rapid testing, for SARS-CoV-2 infections. POC diagnostic tools, however, have clearly also importance in other domains such as oncology and women's health, because of the efficiency and convenience factors playing an increasingly important role in a mobile (and sometimes confined) and digitally connected world. Out of necessity, the 3rd edition of the Swiss Symposium in POC Diagnostics, originally planned to take place at the La Poste Conference Center in Visp, was smoothly run online with 170 engaged participants from science, industry and laboratory medicine.

MEETINGS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 861-861
Keyword(s):  
Lumbar Spine ◽  
Women’S Health ◽  
Women's Health ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
International Society ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Science Center ◽  
Health Science Center ◽  
30Th Annual Meeting

The 30th annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine will be held in Vancouver, Canada, May 13–17, 2003. If you are interested in attending the meeting as a nonmember, you must have a paper on the program or be invited by a member. Please contact the Secretary, Dr. Scott Boden, at Sunnybrook and Women's Health Science Center, Room MG 323, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto M4N 3M5, Canada.

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