The Lifecycle of an Evidence-Based Laboratory Practice Guideline: Origin, Update, Affirmation, and Impact!

Raouf Nakhleh1, Patrick L Fitzgibbons, Jan A Nowak

  • 1From the Department of Pathology, Mayo Clinic Florida, Jacksonville (Dr Nakhleh); the Department of Pathology, St. Jude Medical Center, Fullerton, California (Dr Fitzgibbons); the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York (Dr Nowak); the Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Najarian); the Department of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Dr Keren); the Department of Pathology, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Dr Colgan); and Medical Librarian (Ms Colasacco) and CAP Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center (Ms Fatheree), College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois. Dr Colgan is currently located in the Department of Histopathology at LifeLabs, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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