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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Gras, Jeremie M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Patient Safety ; 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VI, 94 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110346268; 9783110719543; 9783110540550; 9783110625264; 9783110548211
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110346268
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jeremie M. Gras.

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.