In this issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine, guest editor Dr. Octavia M. Peck Palmer brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Centering Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Clinical Pathology. Top experts define health equity, discuss its importance, and describe the role of laboratory medicine in ensuring health equity through providing accessible and accurate clinical testing, clinically appropriate reference intervals, and culturally safe interpretative comments that meet the needs of the patient populations it serves. This issue also covers how clinical labs can conduct clinical trials, utilize residual specimens, and establish virtual biobanks that enroll individuals that are age, gender, ethnic/racial, and geographically diverse to ensure representation.
- Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including health is wealth: clinical lab supporting thriving communities; delivering on a promise: AI creating a new standard of healthcare; point-of-care testing and health equity; centering the clinical laboratory to ensure inclusivity in biobanking and clinical trials; and more.
- Provides in-depth clinical reviews on centering health equity, diversity, and inclusion in clinical pathology, offering actionable insights for clinical practice.
- Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.
