Greetings all,
I contacted CAP just before my on-site inspection last year. I was told that
all validation studies had to be on file until the antibody/ special stain/
or equipment was no longer used. Sad to say. Now, I understand for 2012, CAP
has added another lab specific checklist. My
I think it may depend on the inspector. We had something similar happen
in Cytology during inspection. They had no validation records for their
Thin Prep processing, which they had been doing for years. They were
required to validate and provide documentation to CAP.
Laurie Colbert
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I might be wrong here but I thought that each time that you brought in
new testing, you had to validate it at that time, then had to keep those
records for the life of the test, plus a couple of years
, 2011 12:04 PM
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Subject: RE: [Histonet] RE: New CAP question
I might
Of Laurie Colbert
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I think it may depend on the inspector. We had something similar happen
in Cytology during inspection. They had
First excuse me if I don't e-mail you personally because I am a firm believer
that the answers should be for all to share.
The question is explained in the Note and this means that you have to give
instructions to all those providing you samples as to how to collect them, send
them to you,
