The key to a good POCT program is facility-wide involvement, which includes hospital or clinic regulations addressing authorized sites and testing requirements. The latest edition of the DOD CLIP manual has just been published. The 1997 contract for CAP proficiency surveys was finalized. This will be your final chance to correct your survey order until the modifications scheduled for this summer. The main site is where the surveyor arrives on the first day.
Locations are areas where testing takes place.
Therefore, there may be multiple locations within one site, e.g., main laboratory, stat laboratory, nuclear medicine laboratory, etc, with one or more CLIP numbers. Our office has moved within the D.C. area. 102 Rockville, MD 20850-6000. Please see the box below for our new phone and fax numbers. As those of you in high complexity labs are aware, the lab must have a qualified technical supervisor for each of the specialties or subspecialties for which the lab is registered.