Company Profile
Company Overview
The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) is a global, nonprofit, standards-developing organization that promotes the development and use of voluntary consensus standards and guidelines within the health care community.
Our documents provide invaluable tools that allow distinct—yet inseparable—constituencies to meet their health care responsibilities with efficiency, effectiveness, and global acceptance.
One voice. One mission. One unique consensus process.
These are the dynamics of CLSI—an organization recognized and respected worldwide. Together with you, we will continue to advance excellence in health care for current and future generations.
Company History
In the fall of 1967, 31 clinicians and laboratory scientists representing 15 organizations met to discuss ways of “improving what we are doing for patients” and to develop a formal consensus process for standardization. Although times have changed, we are still driven by the objective of “improving what we are doing for patients.”
In 1977, CLSI was first accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a voluntary consensus standards organization. At about the same time, CLSI became the home of the National Reference System for the Clinical Laboratory (NRSCL), a collection of broadly understood reference systems intended to improve the comparability of test results, consistent with the needs of medical practice.
CLSI is a World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Clinical Laboratory Standards and Accreditation.
CLSI actively promotes global harmonization of standards through its own initiatives and through direct communication links and cooperative programs with many standards-developing organizations around the world.
CLSI's formal education program began with workshops designed to increase the effectiveness of our standards and guidelines, and continues today with conferences, videos, and software programs aimed to support our products and services.
CLSI has evolved into a global association of over 2,000 member organizations and over 2,000 volunteers – all working together to improve the quality of medical care.