A Specimen Collection Form is a document that is used to collect blood, or other biological samples from patients of a medical organization. It is used to send the collected specimens to the laboratory for testing and analysis.

Laboratory quality control is all the measures put in place to eliminate the risk of non-conforming outcomes. It involves systems that safeguard the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of lab results by ensuring the early detection of results or measurement errors and the procedures to rectify them.

Given the importance of laboratory test results, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Environmental Health has programs to help assure the quality of these data so patients and healthcare providers (as well as researchers and public health officials) can be confident that ...

Scientists in CDC's Division of Laboratory Sciences (DLS) improve Americans' health by developing laboratory methods to diagnose disease, testing for exposure to harmful chemicals, helping other labs with improving the quality of their tests, and responding to public health emergencies.

The Enterprise Laboratory Information Management System (ELIMS) is a system that CDC laboratories use to manage specimen testing work flows.

CDC laboratories conduct unique science and provide critical health information that protects the United States against dangerous health threats.

CDC accepts specimens from state public health laboratories and other federal agencies for analysis. Specimens from private healthcare providers and institutions must be submitted to the local state health department laboratory (state, county, city) for appropriate processing.