Speaker:
Mary Kathryn Bohn. PhD Candidate. The Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto.
Mary Kathryn Bohn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She has been actively involved in the recent work of the Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Pediatric Reference Intervals CALIPER at The Hospital for Sick Children. She is also a member of the CSCC Working Group on Reference Interval Harmonization and the IFCC Task Force on Global Reference Interval Database.
Overview:
Harmonization in laboratory medicine from specimen collection to result reporting is critical to ensure consistent and accurate clinical decision-making. There is currently unnecessary variation in reference intervals (RIs) reported to patient charts in laboratories across Canada for assays with established analytical traceability. This webinar will discuss the big data analytics approach developed by the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) Working Group on Reference Interval Harmonization (hRI-WG) to derive common reference ranges across populations and testing platforms followed by an interactive discussion on implementation.
Objectives:
At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Outline the major gaps in reference intervals and the critical need for harmonization across clinical laboratories.
- Describe the major advances made by the CSCC Working Group on Reference Interval Harmonization.
- Discuss the development and verification of common reference intervals and their implementation across Canada.