VOLUME 21 NUMBER 1 SPRING 2017 ISSN 1496-3876
INTRODUCING CANCAST
It is important for Canada in this global environment to have an identifiable National Antibiotic Committee working with our global partners.
The importance of capturing the most appropriate clinical breakpoints for antimicrobial susceptibility cannot be overstated. Antimicrobial resistance has become a major consideration for clinicians and laboratorians alike. It is important that susceptibility breakpoints that are established are global, and that there is input from many quarters to ensure that we get the right answer.
WHO Global Priority List
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of antibiotic-resistant priority pathogens that agency officials believe are the greatest threat to human health and should be the target of research and development for the development of new antimicrobial agents
Caleb Lee receives UBC Pathology Technical Staff Service Award
This award celebrates and recognizes the contributions of committed technicians and technologists whose outstanding performance enhances the mission of the Department to ‘maintain national leadership and international prominence within the discipline of pathology and laboratory Medicine’ and helps create a more positive environment for colleagues and trainees.
BC Quality Forum
The BC Patient Safety & Quality Council held its annual meeting, 2017 quality Forum on March 1-3 in Vancouver, BC. We had the opportunity to attend a few presentations. This year, the focus was greatly on innovation to achieve improvement.
CMPT’s Video Challenge Survey
As part of the February 2017 Clinical Microbiology survey, CMPT sent its first Video Challenge (VC164). CMPT has been using its Paper Challenge as a way to evaluate extra-analytical processes in the total laboratory testing process. Because this was the first use of a video challenge, the opinions of participants were asked to review the experience.
CMPT is a program of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.