Laboratory quality control and patient safety / Jeremie M. Gras.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gras, Jeremie M., author.

Series:

Patient safety ; Volume 11.

Patient Safety ; Volume 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laboratories--Standards.

Laboratories.

Quality control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (100 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Every clinical laboratory devotes considerable resources to Quality Control. Recently, the advent of concepts such as Analytical Goals, Biological Variation, Six Sigma and Risk Management has generated a renewed interest in the way to perform QC. However, laboratory QC practices remain highly non-standardized and a lot of QC questions are left unanswered. The objective of this book is to propose a roadmap for the application of an integrated QC protocol that ensures the safety of patient results in the everyday lab routine.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

1. How do we guarantee that laboratory results are correct? The impact of laboratory quality control on patient safety

2. The elements of a conventional quality control protocol

3. Quality control based on patient data

4. Quality control in specific laboratory departments

5. External quality assessment/proficiency testing in clinical laboratories

6. Laboratory quality control and proficiency testing in reference documents

7. Practical situations in laboratory quality control

8. The future of laboratory quality control

9. Sixty-five key messages in laboratory quality control

Glossary

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 27, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110384536

3110384531

9783110346268

3110346265

OCLC:

976395735