Areas of Interest
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- Competitive analyses that directly compare competitor LEAN assessments to BD LEAN assessments in key areas including hands-on time, time-to-result, walk away time and prep time
- Workflow changes and efficiencies created by high throughput instrument implementation
- Patient management evaluations, workflow or labor evaluations that measure improvements in post assay/instrument implementations
- Strategies for driving enterprise-wide inventory optimization
- Best practices in end-to-end medication safety
- Best practices for detecting and preventing medication diversion
- Strategies for improving medication management in non-acute care settings
- Point-of-care diagnostics
- Research that will advance understanding of how pre-analytical variables in sample collection and management can impact clinical test results, patient outcomes, process efficiency and cost in various clinical settings and patient populations
- Best practices related to improving the safety and experience of healthcare providers and patients during specimen collection and management
- Single cell studies using flow cytometry, cell sorting, and/or multiomics (e.g. Ab-seq/RNA-seq) to improve:
- Patient stratification for therapy initiation
- Post-therapy monitoring for efficacy and safety
- Early disease diagnosis, monitoring and minimal residual disease
- Wellness and disease risk profiling
- Proposals focusing on immune-oncology are of heightened interest, as are proposals focusing on autoimmune disorders, infectious disease, regenerative medicine, transplant and other innovative applications
- Research regarding how to improve dialysis and pre-dialysis patients, via:
- Best practices in AV fistula creation, maturation and interventions
- Patient quality-of-life or preferences related to vascular access