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Infectious Disease Diagnosis: New Guideline on Lab Tests Medscape "The quality of the laboratory services must be excellent in order for the ID physician and other physicians to have confidence that the results will lead to an accurate diagnosis or... 
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Microbiological diagnoses based on laboratory testing directly affect patient care and outcomes, including hospital infection control, duration of hospitalization, and laboratory efficiency, according to new guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and the American Society for Microbiology.
The new recommendations, which address appropriate and accurate use of laboratory tests to diagnose infectious diseases (IDs), were published online July 10 in Clinical Infectious Diseases by Ellen Jo Baron, PhD, from the Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Cepheid, R&D, Sunnyvale, California, and colleagues.
Direct link to the Clinical Infectious Diseases Journal: http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/06/24/cid.cit278.full