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Assessing competence in finding and reporting abnormal morphologic features while scanning peripheral blood smears.

A P Leach·D E Haun
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OBJECTIVE: To develop a competency assessment tool to determine if technologists are detecting and reporting clinically significant findings on blood smears and to identify if proficiency improves through education using a video presentation. DESIGN: Combination of nonequivalent pretest-post test control group and modified time-series design. SETTING: A large medical center in Southern Louisiana. PARTICIPANTS: All shifts of technologists working in the Core Hematology and Special Hematology Laboratories. This sample is a nonprobability sample of convenience. INTERVENTION: A thirty-five minute videotape on the standardization of RBC morphology. MAIN OUTCOMES MEASURE: Develop a method for measuring competency of technologists who perform scans of peripheral blood smears as part of the automated white blood count differential process.

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A P Leach, D E Haun. 2000. Assessing competence in finding and reporting abnormal morphologic features while scanning peripheral blood smears.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14989327/

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