Adirondack Rehabilitation Medicine
What prompted you to accredit your lab?
We wanted patients and referring providers to know that our lab provides the highest quality EDX studies possible, and that quality is acknowledged by the most authoritative organization in EDX medicine.
What value or benefits have you seen from accreditation?
Patients and providers without prior experience with our lab have commented that the accreditation gave them confidence in the quality of our studies and reports.
How did going through the accreditation process help you improve processes and procedures?
We made some minor adjustments to make our results easier to interpret for other providers outside of the lab. This included providing the source of our normative data and making the limb temperature easier to find in our reports.
What did you learn by going through the accreditation process?
It forced us to look at our reports as an outsider and realize which portions of our reports were not as easy for referring providers to use as we wanted them to be.
What was the most challenging portion of the application?
This exercise forced us to ensure we communicated our results as clearly and concisely as possible. In some of the reports it was clear to us what we were trying to communicate, but that isn’t always clear to someone else, particularly someone who doesn’t perform EDX studies.
Did anything about the accreditation process surprise you?
We expected some of our more complex diagnoses to be challenged, but the feedback we received had more to do with making sure all of the important components were included.
Why should others accredit their laboratory?
The lab accreditation process allows you to quickly and credibly communicate your level of training, knowledge base, and the quality of your studies to referring providers.