Laboratory quality control and patient safety / / 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-st...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Patient Safety ; 11
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 94 p.)
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Table of 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