Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Describe the roles of the members of the healthcare team in their respective responsibilities for quality care.
2.To review when a clinician should suspect an interference with a test result.
3.To discuss the main causes of interference with endocrine tests.

4.To Illustrate different endocrinetest interferences by contrasting clinical utility with technical pitfalls associated with current thyroid methodologies.

Faculty

Carole Ann Spencer, PhD
 Professor of Research  Medicine
 Keck School of Medicine
 University of Southern California.
 

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.