Dr. Ila Singh, chief of laboratory medicine at Texas Children’s Hospital, founded the Test Renaming for Understanding and Utilization in the Laboratory (TRUU-Lab) initiative several years ago to tackle challenges related to the nonstandardized and uninformative naming of laboratory tests. In this interview, Dr. Singh describes the surveys her CDC-funded collaborative has conducted with hundreds of physicians and other providers, and she shares insights about how to improve the ordering of tests through more effective naming.

Related Information:

• Click Here to Listen to this Podcast Episode on the ARUP EDU Official Website.
• Click Here to Listen to Dr. Singh's 2019 Appearance on LabMind Entitled "An Interview with Dr. Ila Singh: The TRUU-Lab Initiative to Improve Laboratory Test Names." 
• Click Here to View Dr. Singh's 2019 Video Lecture Entitled "Ordering the Right Lab Test: It All Begins With the Right Test Name."