The establishment of a high quality ART program requires a multi-disciplinary effort, involvement and commitment of all staff members - team work. It is of vital importance that all aspects of the treatments are taken into consideration and that you already from the start use international guidelines, standards and indicators to initiate the construction of a well-organised ART program that mee...

The progress of clinical medicine has been considerably aided in the past few decades by the increased number of laboratory tests available and the improvement in their specificity and accuracy. Nevertheless, the reliability of analytical results from clinical laboratories has been questioned by many individuals, and several independent surveys have more than justified the suspicion (Belk and S...

Three autoanalysers, the EPOS 5060, ERIS 6170 and the Analyst, were evaluated for their adequacy for use in laboratories attached to Saudi 'polyclinics'. All the analysers showed comparable within-batch imprecision. The Analyst was found to be the most useful because it was simple and practical and because its throughput time was faster than the other two analysers. The EPOS 5060 would be more ...

ISO 15189:2012 requires the use of quality indicators (QIs) to monitor and evaluate all steps of the total testing process, but several difficulties dissuade laboratories from effective and continuous use of QIs in routine practice. An International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine working group addressed this problem and implemented a project to develop a model of QIs t...

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...

Histology safety usually focuses on general laboratory issues, but this article concentrates on the hazards affecting the individual histotech and their evolution in the last half a century. Using the information from a survey especially designed for the occasion, the hazards were divided into 4 groups, and their prevalence was expressed as percentages for national and foreign laboratories. All...