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CSCC Guidance, Position Statements, Recommendations

Title Publication Date Interest Group & Committee Copyright
Establishing quality indicators for point of care glucose testing: recommendations from the Canadian Society for Clinical Chemists Point of Care Testing and Quality Indicators Special Interest Groups April 2023 POCT & Quality Indicators SIG Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM), Volume 61, Issue 7, Pages 1280-1287.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Top 10 Choosing Wisely Canada’s Recommendations for Conserving Laboratory Resources Nov 2022 Utilization Management SIG Canadian Journal General Internal Medicine, Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 86-95.
Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Harmonized Clinical Laboratory Lipid Reporting Recommendations on the Basis of 2021 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Lipid Guidelines Aug 2022 Harmonization of Reference Interval Working Group Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 38, Issue 8, Pages 1180-1188.
Intrapartum Fetal Scalp Lactate Testing: Considerations for Implementation and Clinical Decision Making Nov 2021 POCT SIG J OBstet Gynaecol Can., Volume 43, Issue 11, Pages 1244-1246.
Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) consensus guidance for testing, selection, and quality management of SARS-CoV-2 point-of-care tests Sept 2021 COVID-19/POCT SIG Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 95, Pages 1-12.
AACC Practical Recommendations for Implementing and Interpreting SARS-CoV-2 Emergency Use Authorization and Laboratory Developed Test Serologic Testing in Clinical Laboratories Sept 2021 COVID-19 SIG Clinical Chemistry, Volume 67, Issue 9, Pages 1188-1200.
Quality assurance practices for point of care testing programs: Recommendations by the Canadian society of clinical chemists point of care testing interest group Feb 2021 POCT SIG Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 88, Pages 11-17.
Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) interim consensus guidance for testing and reporting of SARS-CoV-2 serology Dec 2020 COVID-19 SIG Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 86, Pages 1-7.
Interim guidance on the use of the Abbott ID NOWTM instrument and COVID-19 assay on behalf of the Canadian Public Health Laboratory Network and the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Nov 2020 COVID-19 SIG Can Commun Dis Rep, Volume 46, Issue 11/12, Pages 422-426.
Point-of-care testing: A position statement from the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Mar 2018 POCT SIG Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 53, Pages 156-159.
Candidate recommendations for protein electrophoresis reporting from the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists Monoclonal Gammopathy Working Group Jan 2018 Monoclonal Gammopathy SIG Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 51, Pages 10-20.
Cardiac troponin testing in the acute care setting: Ordering, reporting, and high sensitivity assays – an update from the Canadian Society of Clinical Chemists (CSCC) Nov 2018 Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 44, Issue 16, Pages 1273 – 1277.

CSCC Practice Updates

Title Publication Date Interest Group & Committees
Practice Update from the CSCC Reference Interval Harmonization Working Group: Recommendations on LDL-C Calculation & Reporting Jun 2022 Harmonization of Reference Interval Working Group
CSCC Practice Alert – Global Shortages in Laboratory Supplies (March 2022)

SCCC Alerte destinée aux cabinets médicaux – Pénuries mondiales de fournitures de laboratoire (Mars 2022)

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Mar 2022 Utilization Management SIG
Choosing Wisely Canada and CSCC – Using Labs Wisely During Global Blood Tube and Other Resource Shortages

 

 Feb 2022 Utilization Management SIG
Position Description of a Clinical Biochemist (2006) Jan 2006

 

CSCC Surveys, Reports, Other

Title Publication Date Interest Group & Committees Copyright
A snapshot of lipid-reporting practices in Canadian clinical laboratories: an urgent need for harmonization Jun 2021 Harmonization of reference intervals working group Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 37, Pages 937-937
Application of the TML method to big data analytics and reference interval harmonization Apr 2021 Harmonization of reference intervals working group Journal of Laboratory Medicine, Volume 45, Pages 79-85
Pediatric and adult reference interval harmonization in Canada: an update. Jan 2019 Harmonization of reference intervals working group Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. Volume 57, Pages 57-60
National survey of adult and pediatric reference intervals in clinical laboratories across Canada: a report of the CSCC working group on reference interval harmonization. Nov 2017 Harmonization of reference intervals working group Clinical Biochemistry, Volume 50, Pages 925-935