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Diagnostic Error Tops Patient Safety Concerns: What Can Labs Do?

March 26, 2018

Diagnostic Error Tops Patient Safety Concerns: What Can Labs Do?

Last week, the ECRI Institute released its top 10 list of patient safety concerns for 2018. At the top of the list for the first time ever was diagnostic error.

ARUP Technician Charlie Thai

March 15, 2018

Lab Jobs and Training: Moving Up, Refining Knowledge

ARUP's Institute for Learning (IFL) works with employees to provide support to receive training in the medical laboratory science field.

An ill child awaiting treatment

March 8, 2018

New Technology Diagnoses Pneumonia Caused by Previously Undetected Pathogens

Metagenomics test identified pathogens missed by conventional lab tests in 44 percent of immunocompromised children treated for respiratory infection

Kidney Month Trisomy Story Ideas Roundup

March 6, 2018

National Kidney Month and Trisomy Awareness Month: Story Ideas and Expert List

For National Kidney Month and Trisomy Awareness Month in March, we have past stories from ARUP Laboratories. Our expert list includes scientists with specialties in renal pathology and genetics.

Dave Rogers Gives a Tour of ARUP Specimen Receiving to BYU Bioinformatics Students

March 1, 2018

Bioinformatics Learning: ARUP's Program Opens BYU Students’ Eyes to New Possibilities

ARUP’s Dave Rogers shows students the Specimen Receiving and Processing area, where some 50,000 specimens arrive daily and begin their journey into specified labs for analysis.

A man receiving peritoneal dialysis, illustrates chronic kidney disease

February 27, 2018

Chronic Kidney Disease and Improving Diagnoses: ARUP Teams Up to Identify Patients at Risk

Thirty million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but only 3.6 million know they’ve got the disease. With few early symptoms, people may not realize they have the disease until their kidney function is significantly depleted. That can be fatal without dialysis or a kidney transplant.

One in three American adults is at risk for chronic kidney disease as a result of hypertension or diabetes. CKD

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