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Wagner LR (1997) The college of American pathologist, 1946-1996 laboratory standards. Arch Path Labor Med 121 536-541. 

False-positive results with bDNA have been observed with proficiency testing specimens for HTV-1 in the College of American Pathologists HIV-1 viral load survey and HCV in the viral quality control program administered by the Netherlands Red Cross. The reason for the false-positive results with these proficiency testing specimens is not known but may be sample matrix effects. The extent to which this problem occurs with clinical samples has not been determined. However, both the HIV-1 and HCV bDNA assays were designed to have a false-positive rate of 5%. 

Wolff AC, Hammond MEH, Schwartz JN, et al. American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists Guideline Recommendations for Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 Testing in Breast Cancer. Arch. Pathol. Lab. Med. 2007 131 18-43. 

Wolff A, Hammond M, Schwartz J, et al. American Society of Clinical Oncology/ College of American Pathologists guideline recommendations for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 testing in breast cancer. J. Clin. Oncol. 2007 25 118-145. 

College of American Pathologists (CAP), Gene Patents Detrimental to Care, Training, Research (July 5,2000), www.cap.org/html/advocacy/issues/genetalk.html (last visited June 21, 2002). 

College of American Pathologists Laboratory Accreditation Program (1997) Standards for Laboratory Accreditation, Commission on Laboratory Accreditation Inspection Checklist, Sections 1 and 8. 

Compton CC, Fielding LP, Burgart LJ, et al. Prognostic factors in colorectal cancer. College of American Pathologists Consensus Statement 1999. Arch Pathol Lab Med 2000 124 979-994. 

The way in which accreditation is organised varies in different countries with organisations such as the Clinical Pathology Accreditation (CPA UK) in the UK and CCKL Test in The Netherlands. Accreditation may be optional or may be mandatory, as in the USA, and mediated by deemed authorities such as the College of American Pathologists. However, the standards to which these accreditation bodies operate are usually cross referenced to internationally agreed formulae such as ... 

Although multidimensional separation generally offers enhanced selectivity and discrimination of solutes, application of more than one hyphenated techniques is usually required for complete and unequivocal identification of the analytes. A recent report states that two widespread misconceptions about mass spectroscopy (MS) are that GC-MS is a specific method and tlrat GC-MS is 100% accurate (5). The 1989 Forensic Urine Drug Confirmation Study by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry/College of American Pathologists confirmed this concern about overreliance on GC-MS as a confirmation method (5). 

Taylor, C. R., Chen, C., Shi, S.-R., Young, L., Yang, C., and Cote, R. J. 1995. A comparative study of antigen retrieval heating methods. College of American Pathologists Today (CAPTODAY), Feb., 16-22. 

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