Recorded Webinars
The following pre-recorded webinars, sponsored by BD and the Association for Diagnostics & Laboratory Medicine (ADLM) formerly American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC), are available for viewing by using the designated links:
ERRONEOUS POTASSIUM RESULTS: Preanalytical Causes, Detection, and Corrective Actions
Dr. Kathrin Schlueter (BD Medical Affairs Manager, EMEA) explores critical preanalytical causes and provides practical corrective actions to ensure diagnostic accuracy.
The webinar is now available on demand by clicking on the following link:
Precision in practice: Optimizing blood culture collection volumes using ultra-thin wall cannula devices and performance monitoring to drive quality assurance
Speakers:
Grant Johnson, BSc, MLT, ART
Clinical Director, Laboratory Medicine and Infection Prevention and Control
Lakeridge Health, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Consistently achieving optimal blood culture volumes is essential for accurate diagnostics, yet laboratories often struggle with variability caused by multiple collection sites, diverse staff practices, and time constraints. These challenges can lead to underfilled bottles and compromise patient care. In this webinar, Grant Johnson will share how Lakeridge Health addressed these obstacles through a combined approach of innovative device design and data-driven performance monitoring. This discussion will focus on the role of design innovations in reducing variability in blood culture collection and the impact of real-time analytics on performance oversight. By combining these strategies, Lakeridge Health was able to identify gaps, implement corrective actions, and sustain compliance, ultimately driving improvements in diagnostic reliability and patient outcomes.
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https://myadlm.org/education/all-webinars/webinars/2026/january/precision-in-practice
Recording is available through 1/31/2027
Novel Tools to Detect Preanalytical Errors and Improve Specimen Quality
Speakers:
Christopher W. Farnsworth, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Section Head of Clinical Chemistry
Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University
St. Louis, MO, USA
Accurate laboratory results are crucial to effective patient care, yet errors can arise that are impactful, costly, and far too common. Preanalytical errors make up the majority of diagnostic testing, accounting for ~43–75% of all laboratory errors in published studies. Despite this, there are limited tools available to laboratorians to capture and prevent preanalytical error. In this webinar, Dr. Christopher Farnsworth will introduce studies from his own hospital and other institutions in which novel tools for detecting preanalytical error have been implemented. Further, Dr. Farnsworth will assess how these tools have been applied collaboratively with nursing and others within the hospital to improve laboratory results and patient outcomes
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Novel Tools to Detect Preanalytical Errors and Improve Specimen Quality | myadlm.org
Recording is available until 5/31/2026.
Improving Blood Collection Outcomes through Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Speakers:
Barb Nickel, APRN-CNS, CCRN, CRNI
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Omaha, NE, USA
Blood collection via venipuncture is a task traditionally completed by trained phlebotomists. However, due to various healthcare constraints, this task has increasingly been shared with other disciplines, most notably nursing. This transition has increased the complexity of blood collection due to variability in training, in skill level, and in workflows. Most importantly, these factors can impact patient care by increasing unsuccessful collection attempts, reducing the quality and optimal timing of the specimen, and causing delays and inaccuracies in clinical decision making.
In this webinar, Barb Nickel, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and co-author of the 2024 INS Infusion Therapy Standards of Practice, will provide an overview of the following factors in venipuncture blood collection: healthcare factors that have added complexity, sources of inaccurate specimen collection, and best practices in interdisciplinary collaboration to improve outcomes.
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Improving blood collection outcomes through interdisciplinary collaboration | myadlm.org
Recording is available until 10/31/2026.
Urine Trouble? Opportunities to Improve Urine-Based Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases
Speaker:
Melanie Yarbrough, PhD, D(ABMM), D(ABCC)
Associate Professor of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis
Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis
St. Louis, MO, USA
Recent advances in urine collection devices and diagnostic testing have provided opportunities for clinical laboratories to improve upon stagnant practices that may have deleterious effects on test utilization and result quality. Urine cultures are the gold standard for the diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI), one of the most common causes of bacterial infection, and therefore account for much of the workload in clinical microbiology laboratories. Contamination and workflow inefficiencies with urine specimens can lead to increased workload for the laboratory and antibiotic misuse in patients.
Join Dr. Melanie L. Yarbrough to discuss the importance of pre-analytical variables in urine testing, describe the implementation and impact of reflex algorithms on urine culture utilization, and describe how laboratory-based initiatives to reduce unnecessary urine testing can improve workflow efficiency and impact patient care.
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Urine Trouble? Opportunities to Improve Urine-Based Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases | myadlm.org
Recording is available until 8/31/2026.
Video Presentation on The Impact of Non-Reported POCT Errors on Patient Care and Hospital Resources
Presented at the European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) Congress, Lisbon, Portugal, October 2021
Click here for accompanying slides for the presentation.
Tracking the Cost of Poor Quality and Errors in Preanalytical Processes
Presenters: Sol Green, PhD; Patrick R. Murray, PhD
