Imagine that you supervise an immunology laboratory, and you wish to propose that the current slide-based ANA lab test be retired. Instead, you want to convert to a new, high-throughput automated ENA test. This change would have a significant impact on primary care clinicians as well as any rheumatologists who use your laboratory services. Such a change will require you to present evidence for your proposal to clinicians and other stakeholders. Evidence includes data and information on your proposed test or method that have been gathered from sources that are deemed credible. These sources are usually articles or publications that have undergone a peer-review process.
Examples include:
- Peer-reviewed published research
- Academic works, such as theses and dissertations
- Professional journals
- Academic journals
- Government agency documents, reports, or protocols (e.g., CMS, CDC, FDA, Department of Health, etc.)
- Technical documents
- Case studies
