Acknowledgments We thank the Center de Recherche et Formation (SEREFO) team members for their support. We also thank the clinical staff, Souleymane Diallo, Sounkalo Dao, Samba Diop, Bindongo P.P. Dembele, Hamadoun Kassambara, Drissa Goita, and Ousmane M’baye for their efforts in patient recruitment; and the laboratory staff, Guindo Oumar, Djeneba Dabitao, Hama Diallo, Yeya D.S. Sarro, Mariam Ta...

until recently pet scanning has been available only at major universities or teaching hospitals possessing the necessary resources and expertise to operate a research pet facility. most dedicated pet centers cost several millions of dollars, and include a cyclotron, a radiochemistry laboratory to synthesize pet radiopharmaceuticals, a multicrystal dedicated pet camera, advanced computer facilit...

Background and Aims: The issue of the quality in healthcare cannot be ignored anymore. Laboratories play vital roles in control and prevention of diseases by providing timely and accurate result for patient management including disease surveillance. The aim of the study is to assess the quality of laboratory services in a Tertiary Health Institution in Sokoto. Materials and Methods: A descript...

We sent questionnaires to 98 maxillofacial laboratories in the United Kingdom and asked about the composition of their staff, the kind of work that they do, and their activities in relation to the treatment of disfigured patients who require facial and body prostheses. We received 59 replies about 193 laboratory staff, most of whom had 10 or more years experience and held basic and advanced qua...

Introduction Quality control in clinical microbiology laboratories has tended to focus mainly on the accuracy of results obtained from the processing of specimens.`'3 Providing that external and internal quality control procedures are satisfactory, the laboratory may tend to assume that because the results produced are accurate, the service provided must be a good one. Users of the service, on ...

Harris JR. Peer assessment in large undergraduate classes: an evaluation of a procedure for marking laboratory reports and a review of related practices. Adv Physiol Educ 35: 178–187, 2011; doi:10.1152/advan.00115.2010.—This study provides evidence that peer marking can be a reliable tool for assessing laboratory reports in large cohorts. It was conducted over a 4-yr period with first-year unde...

BACKGROUND Bungoma District Hospital Laboratory (BDHL), which supports a 200-bed referral facility, began its Strengthening Laboratory Management Toward Accreditation (SLMTA) journey in 2011 together with eight other laboratories in the second round of SLMTA rollout in Kenya. OBJECTIVES To describe how the SLMTA programme and enhanced quality interventions changed the culture and management s...