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Clinical test menu streamlines process

Print view of test menu detail
July 27, 2017 -- Visitors to the Hygienic Laboratory website will find an updated Clinical Test Menu that provides details and instructions for more than 100 clinical tests. The new menu was rolled out on July 1, and includes instructions about specimen collection, testing turnaround time, costs, processing codes and other details necessary to ensure accuracy and specimen integrity.

Each page also links to the Clinical Test Request Forms page to order tests.

The new design makes it easier to find this information with a search option on the Test Menu site that narrows results to just that page rather than including the entire State Hygienic Laboratory website. Cross references in the index give users additional information for each test. For example, the Bordetella pertussis PCR includes the description of the testing process, “Nucleic acid amplification by PCR to detect B. pertussis DNA.”