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Cholestech LDX System Procedure Manual
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7.2 Proficiency Testing Agencies
• Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, Proficiency Testing Program; 465 Henry Mall
Room GCD, Madison, WI 53706-1578, 800-462-5261/ FAX 608-265-1111.*
• The College of American Pathologists, EXCEL Program; 325 Waukegan Road, Northfield,
IL 60093-2750, 800-323-4040.*
• American Proficiency Institute; 1159 Business Park Drive, Traverse City, MI 49686,
800-333-0958/ FAX 231-941-7287.*
• The American Academy of Family Physicians; AAFP-PT, 11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway,
Leawood, KS 66211-2672, 800-274-7911 (Ask for AAFP-PT)/ FAX 816-361-8167.
• Some state health departments.
* These laboratories have been shown to correlate with minimal matrix effects on the Cholestech LDX.
7.3 Reference(s) and Bibliography
1. National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards.
Physician’s Office Laboratory
Guidelines; Tentative Guidelines
. Villanova, Pa.: NCCLS; 1989. NCCLS publication POL1-T.
2. Howanitz PJ, Howanitz JH.
Laboratory Quality Assurance
. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill
Book Co; 1987.
3. How to avoid dangerous mistakes in a physician’s office laboratory. Continuing
Education Course No. 328, American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific
Assembly; 1989.
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