Clinical Practice Guidelines and Resources

The ASCP Institute for Science, Technology and Policy develops Clinical Practice Guidelines and promotes other clinical practice resources with the goal of supporting pathologists, laboratory professionals and the entire healthcare team in providing optimal patient care.

Laboratory Workup of Lymphoma in Adults Guideline Released

ASCP, the College of American Pathologists (CAP), and the American Society for Hematology (ASH) collaborated on an evidence-based clinical practice guideline that focuses on the pre-analytic phase of tissue handling and lymphoma diagnosis to help clinical teams improve patient care.
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ASCP Evidence-Based Guidelines

The ASCP Institute for Science, Technology and Policy develops Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) in a transparent and ethical manner. CPG typically focus on a specific disease or related set of diseases, with the goal of optimizing patient care by providing evidence-based recommendations on updated testing and treatments to assist physicians, healthcare workers and even patients in making difficult decisions, by weighing benefits and harms of care options. ASCP engages primarily in guidelines that place emphasis on the role of the pathologist, laboratory professional and laboratory as the nexus of patient care.

Evidence-Based Guidelines Developed

ASCP, working in collaboration with other professional societies, has developed the following guidelines.

ASCP/CAP/AMP/ASCP Molecular Biomarkers for the Evaluation of Colorectal Cancer

CAP/ASCP/ASCO HER2 Testing in Gastric Cancer

Laboratory Workup of Lymphoma in Adults: Guideline From the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the College of American Pathologists

Standards for Quality

The ASCP Institute for Science, Technology and Policy employs established sound practices for guidelines development by following the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) Standards for Developing Trustworthy Clinical Practice Guidelines. This publication outlines eight standards proposed to cover essential elements determined to be key to the production of sound clinical practice guidelines. Following these standards ensures that ASCP guidelines are transparent in their development and use an unbiased systematic approach for the establishment of the evidence-based recommendation.

A brief summary of the standards can be accessed below.

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Other Clinical Practice Resources

In addition to developing Clinical Practice Guidelines, ASCP also works with other organizations to provide pathologists and laboratory professionals with other practice resources to support and improve patient care.

Statement on the Release of the 2020 American Cancer Society Cervical Cancer Screening Guidelines

Chronic Kidney Disease Assessment and Diagnosis Resources

Communication & Dissemination

When a Clinical Practice Guideline or other clinical practice resource is finalized, ASCP works with its collaborators to design a communications and dissemination campaign to inform clinicians, laboratorians, and the public. Such information may include: videos for pathology, clinician and patient audiences; infographics of pertinent facts; major media distribution of expert-informed press releases; use of social media shares; TV/News interviews; and more.

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