Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Conflict of Interest
    • Informed Consent
    • Human and Animal Rights
  • More
    • Alerts
    • Feedback
    • Folders
  • ascls.org
    • ascls.org

User menu

  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
  • ascls.org
    • ascls.org
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current
    • Ahead of print
    • Archive
  • Info for
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
  • About Us
    • About Us
    • Conflict of Interest
    • Informed Consent
    • Human and Animal Rights
  • More
    • Alerts
    • Feedback
    • Folders
  • Follow ASCLS on Twitter
  • Visit ASCLS on Facebook
  • Follow ASCLS on Instagram
  • RSS Feed
Research ArticleDialog and Discussion

Independent Practice

American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science April 2013, 26 (2) 67; DOI: https://doi.org/10.29074/ascls.26.2.67
  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.

Extract

It is the position of the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) that clinical laboratory testing is the defined practice of qualified medical laboratory professionals and encompasses the design, performance, evaluation, reporting, interpreting, and clinical correlation of clinical laboratory testing, and the management of all aspects of these services. As healthcare professionals, medical laboratory scientists have the required knowledge and skills to perform, correlate, and interpret laboratory tests, supervise and direct clinical laboratories, and educate medical laboratory professionals. Medical laboratory scientists as members of the healthcare team, collaborate in the diagnosis and treatment of patients by implementing initial and reflex algorithms and testing protocols within prescribed guidelines. Medical laboratory scientists assure reliable and accurate laboratory test results, disseminate clinical laboratory test information to clinicians and patients in a timely manner, and evaluate the outcome of clinical laboratory testing for each individual patient and the entire healthcare system.

Medical laboratory scientists, with appropriate graduate education, can direct full-service clinical laboratories. This function is firmly grounded in (a) applicable state law, and (b) federal regulations governing clinical laboratories under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 and laboratory participation in Medicare and Medicaid.

Clinical Laboratory Science is a profession that practices independently as well as collaboratively with other healthcare professionals and is distinct from the practice of medicine. It is characterized by its own Body of Knowledge and Scope of Practice, certifies its own practitioners, requires of its practitioners competency in scientific, technical, managerial and scholarly principles, and high standards of…

  • © Copyright 2013 American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Inc. All rights reserved.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science: 26 (2)
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Vol. 26, Issue 2
Spring 2013
  • Table of Contents
  • Table of Contents (PDF)
  • Index by author
  • Back Matter (PDF)
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Independent Practice
(Your Name) has sent you a message from American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
Citation Tools
Independent Practice
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Apr 2013, 26 (2) 67; DOI: 10.29074/ascls.26.2.67

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Request Permissions
Share
Independent Practice
American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science Apr 2013, 26 (2) 67; DOI: 10.29074/ascls.26.2.67
Twitter logo Facebook logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • No citing articles found.
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

  • In Memoriam
  • Editorial
  • The Value of the Clinical Laboratory
Show more Dialog and Discussion

Similar Articles

© 2025 The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science

Powered by HighWire