ASCLS strongly supports the roles of Medical Laboratory Scientists, Medical Laboratory Technicians, Clinical Laboratory Assistants and Phlebotomists in improving patient care, by promoting improvements in the delivery of laboratory testing services, enhancing educational requirements for Medical Laboratory Professionals, and identifying advanced practice opportunities for the profession.

This easily sharable video promotes communication between patients and medical laboratory professionals collecting blood specimens.

Blood Specimen Collection - Patient Safety Series

ASCLS develops and publishes ‘Patient Safety Tips’ brochures to provide educational materials for consumers, providers and other healthcare professionals to assist in the prevention of diagnostic testing errors and support safe, efficient and effective laboratory testing.

Clinical laboratories wishing to disseminate these products to its customers may print (using two-sided printing) and are encouraged to customize with your laboratory’s contact information.

Patient and Family Laboratory Safety Tips

  • Glucose Tolerance
  • 24-Hour Urine Collection
  • Blood Specimen Collection (Venipuncture)
  • Common Substances that Affect Laboratory Test Results
  • Diarrhea & Stool Testing
  • Fasting: What is it? Does it matter?
  • Genetic Testing
  • Hydrogen Breath Test
  • Lipid Testing
  • Personal Coumadin INR Tracking
  • Vitamin D Testing