Developing patient-centric quality control material 
By Chris Gardner
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this article, the reader will be able to:
- List the different types of bloodstream infections currently infecting patients.
- Discuss healthcare statistics among bloodstream infections.
- Identify fungal blood stream infections and discuss the need to rapidly identify them.
- Discuss the importance of adding fungal pathogen ID panels to molecular testing platforms.
About the Author
Chris Gardner is Director of Product Marketing at Luminex, a DiaSorin company, responsible for gastrointestinal, blood culture, and other infectious disease tests. He has extensive experience in molecular diagnostics for a wide range of healthcare applications.
Photo credit: CDC/ Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy Unit
Course Includes
- 1 Article
- 1 Test
- Course Certificate
MLO and Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb, IL, are co-sponsors in offering continuing education units (CEUs) for this issue’s CE article. CEUs or contact hours are granted by the College of Health and Human Sciences at Northern Illinois University, which has been approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. Continuing education credits awarded for successful completion of this test are acceptable for the ASCP Board of Registry Continuing Competence Recognition Program. Readers who pass the test successfully (scoring 70% or higher) will receive a certificate for 1 contact hour of P.A.C.E.® credit. The fee for this continuing education test is $20. This test was prepared by Amanda Voelker, MPH, MT(ASCP), MLS, Clinical Education Coordinator, School of Health Studies, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL.
Level of Instruction: Intermediate
Passing scores of 70 percent or higher are eligible for 1 contact hour of P.A.C.E. credit. This test is no longer valid for CEUs after July 30, 2025.
NIU is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. ® Program.