The PSC serves to advance understanding of the laboratory professional's role in patient safety, and is dedicated to research, education, and the promotion of best practices that allow clinical laboratory professionals to deliver safe laboratory testing and services. The committee provides tools, resources, and educational materials to improve safety for all patients served.

Committee Roster

Patient Safety Tips

The ASCLS Patient Safety Committee unveiled two Patient Safety Tips flyers at the 2009 ASCLS annual meeting in Chicago. We encourage you to personalize, print (on two sides), and provide these flyers to your clients. To personalize, use the Word document and add your laboratory contact information at the bottom of page 2 of each flyer prior to printing.

These are the first of a series of Patient Safety Tip flyers that are being developed.

Venipuncture Patient Safety Tips

Adobe pdf
Word 2003


Fasting Patient Safety Tips

Adobe pdf
Word 2003

Personal Pocket Laboratory Guide

The ASCLS Patient Safety Committee has developed Personal Pocket Laboratory Guide tri-folds. We encourage you to personalize and print these cards and provide them to your clients. The tri-folds contain

• tips for patients to safeguard their laboratory testing
• a chart for them to track their laboratory test results
• the LabTestsOnLine website address, for questions about laboratory tests

These pocket guides are designed to be personalized with your laboratory contact information. These should be edited by adding contact information in the center text box of side 1 prior to printing.

The Personal Pocket Guide Tri-fold documents are available in the following formats; they are to be printed 2-sided:

If you have technical problems with these formats, please contact the Patient Safety Committee.