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Quality assurance in clinical laboratories
Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry ; 36(SUPPL 1):S25-S26, 2021.
Article in English | EMBASE | ID: covidwho-1767678
ABSTRACT
In healthcare today, medical laboratories are key partners in ensuring and maintaining patient safety, Iand it is seen that laboratory results influence approx. 70% of medical decisions. Quality standards of the laboratory plays a major role in ensuring the correctness of these results, providing better patient care as a whole and promoting excellence. While the absence of the same may lead to unreliable results, causing a delay in treatment, misdiagnosis and an increase in cost due to a need for retesting. COVID-19 Pandemic has affected everyone globally & correct lab diagnosis is very important. Therefore, ICMR has made it mandatory to allow only accredited labs to perform RT-PCR test. Good quality is never brought about by accident;it is almost always the cumulative result of sincere intentions, dedicated effort, intelligent direction and skilful execution. As a choice, good qualitymay not necessarily be the easiest or the cheapest;however it is definitely the wisest for both patient health and welfare as well as laboratory credibility. International standard ISO15189, based upon ISO17025 and ISO9001 standards, provides the basic requirements for establishing competence and serves as the bible for quality in medical laboratories. And while this serves as an excellent guiding principle, no matter how good the quality mechanisms are on paper, truly good quality cannot be achieved if theory is not translated into practice day-in and day-out. The entire process of managing a sample must be considered including the beginning i.e sample collection to end i.e reporting and saving results.
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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: EMBASE Type of study: Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry Year: 2021 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: EMBASE Type of study: Prognostic study Language: English Journal: Indian Journal of Clinical Biochemistry Year: 2021 Document Type: Article