Laboratory quality control and patient safety

✍ Scribed by Jeremie M. Gras

Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 100
Series: Patient Safety; 11
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

Implication of Quality Control procedures on the quality of laboratory results and their practical impact on patient safety
Practical QC situations and solutions

✦ Table of Contents

Table of contents
1 How do we guarantee that laboratory results are correct? The impact of laboratory quality control on patient safety
1.1 References
2 The elements of a conventional quality control protocol
2.1 Selection of quality requirements
2.1.1 References
2.2 Quality control rules
2.2.1 References
2.3 Sigma metrics
2.3.1 References
2.4 Quality control frequency
2.4.1 References
2.5 Investigation and corrective actions following QC or EQA/PT failure
2.5.1 Investigation and corrective actions following QC failure
2.5.2 Investigation and corrective actions following EQA/PT failure
2.5.3 References
3 Quality control based on patient data
3.1 References
4 Quality control in specific laboratory departments
4.1 References
5 External quality assessment/proficiency testing in clinical laboratories
5.1 References
6 Laboratory quality control and proficiency testing in reference documents
6.1 References
7 Practical situations in laboratory quality control
7.1 Practical cases in the establishment of a QC protocol
7.2 Practical situations in dealing with QC rules violation
8 The future of laboratory quality control
8.1 References
9 Sixty-five key messages in laboratory quality control
Glossary
Index

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