CLSI Releases Infobase™ 2008

Searchable CD-ROM of CLSI Standards and Guidelines

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently released the 2008 edition of Infobase™, which is a searchable CD-ROM including over 180 CLSI standards and guidelines for medical testing best practices.

As one of the highlights of CLSI’s electronic product offerings, Infobase™ 2008 includes approved- and proposed-level documents with convenient search capabilities.

Lola Pugliese, MBA, MS, CLSI, Vice President, Finance and Member Services, says, “We are pleased to announce the availability of the latest edition of Infobase™. This user-friendly product is on a CD-ROM that our customers and members can have available at their computer in order to access and search CLSI documents to find practical solutions to day-to-day challenges.”

Features of Infobase™ 2008:
Includes the CLSI library of all approved- AND proposed-level documents published through 31 December 2007;
Enhanced search capabilities to quickly and easily search titles, key words, and abstracts or the full document text; and
Searches for relevant text within multiple documents using sophisticated linking capabilities.

Also available from CLSI is the Electronic Subscription Service, which offers access to the complete library of CLSI documents and is continuously updated as new products become available.

For additional information on CLSI or for further information regarding this release, visit our website at http://www.clsi.org or call +610.688.0100.

CLSI, formerly NCCLS, is a global, nonprofit, membership-based organization dedicated to developing standards and guidelines for the health care and medical testing community. CLSI’s unique consensus process facilitates the creation of standards and guidelines that are reliable, practical, and achievable for an effective quality system.

Contacts

Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI)
Amanda Holm, Marketing Manager
Phone: +610-688-0100 ext. 129
E-mail: aholm {at} clsi(.)org