Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Clinical Laboratories

Quality Control in Clinical Laboratories

1.1 The automated analyzers in clinical laboratories Nowadays, the overwhelming majority of laboratory results in clinical laboratories is being generated by automated analyzers. Modern automated analyzers are highly sophisticated instruments which can produce a tremendous number of laboratory results in a very short time. This is achieved thanks to the integration of technologies from three di...

Emerging concepts of quality assurance in clinical laboratories.

Quality Assurance is a management system designed to achieve an acceptable level of quality services, prevent poor quality and in laboratories is intended to ensure reliability of results. It comprehensively includes controlling the quality of procedures at each and every step including Pre-analytical (specimen collection and transport), Analytical (specimen processing in the lab) and Post-anal...

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Quality assurance in molecular genetic testing laboratories.

CONTEXT Specific regulation of laboratories performing molecular genetic tests may be needed to ensure standards and quality assurance (QA) and safeguard patient rights to informed consent and confidentiality. However, comprehensive analysis of current practices of such laboratories, important for assessing the need for regulation and its impact on access to testing, has not been conducted. O...

Quality assurance in veterinary diagnostic laboratories.

The authors discuss the responsibility of veterinary diagnostic laboratories as suppliers of analytical data for tests on animals and animal products. The guarantee of the quality of analytical data is a basic quality requirement for veterinary certification. It is therefore important for the laboratory to adopt operational quality assurance standards which are recognised internationally. The m...