Medical Laboratory Evaluation

Medical Laboratory Evaluation Proficiency Testing (PT) Program

Improving Quality Patient Care Through Accurate Diagnostic Testing

Provided by American College of Physicians
2009 MLE Catalog

2009 U.S. MLE Catalog and Information Guide for Proficiency Testing

  
2008 MLE Catalog

2008 U.S. MLE Catalog

 Catálogo de Exámenes de Aptitud 2008

Catálogo de Exámenes de Aptitud 2008

Global Network

As a service of the American College of Physicians (ACP)---a physicians' professional society with 126,000 members worldwide---the U.S.-based Medical Laboratory Evaluation (MLE) program provides a Proficiency Testing (PT) service for those who perform diagnostic testing on blood and bodily fluids. Our clients include a wide array of public and private clinical laboratories in 16 countries and we continue to explore opportunities around the world.

This external form of multilaboratory comparison makes a cost-effective and safe mechanism for checking performance. MLE provides three testing events over the course of the year to challenge the laboratory’s assays and unknown samples. The samples provided contain analyte levels that range from normal to abnormal.

Experience the Difference

MLE goes beyond the mere “number crunching” of proficiency testing data to educating, informing, and working with our participants to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

Online Options

  • Online result reporting—Vastly improved system with an intuitive, user-friendly approach
  • Participant Summaries—Print the entire summary or only the pages you need
  • Evaluation reports—Access reports from 2006 to present
  • FREE continuing education courses
  • Program Forms

Comprehensive Proficiency Test Menu

In addition to the more common proficiency testing (PT) menus, we have “add-on” test modules that enable laboratories to customize their PT order. MLE’s test menu offers one of the largest arrays of cost-effective “add-ons” in the industry!

Assistance for New Staff

MLE’s live, on-site support is especially resourceful to laboratories experiencing high staff turnover

Waived Testing and PPM Services

  • Special two-sample test menu
  • A cost-effective Waived and PPM package
  • FREE E-notification service on newly approved waived tests and on recalls for waived devices
  • FREE, newly updated resource, “Waived Testing—Doing It Right,” answers questions about waived testing criteria, test categories, standards, and cost

Approved by CMS, COLA, TJC (formerly JCAHO), State Agencies and International Regulatory Bodies in a number of countries.

Medical Laboratory Evaluation
ACP
Suite 700
25 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington DC 20001-7401

MLE Customer Service 800-338-2746, option 5, or 202-261-4500
Fax: 202-835-0440
Email: mle@acponline.org

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