TY - JOUR
T1 - Quality management and accreditation in laboratory hematology
T2 - Perspectives from India
AU - Pai, Swati
AU - Frater, John L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd
PY - 2019/5
Y1 - 2019/5
N2 - Quality management (QM), including quality assurance and quality control, was developed in clinical laboratories in North America and Western Europe, but must be implemented worldwide to ensure accurate, reproducible, and clinically useful results. India, a middle income country with a population of over 1.34 billion, has limited budget allotted to health care. As yet accreditation for clinical laboratories is not mandatory, which contributes to challenges in implementing good laboratory practice. This review provides a summary of internationally laid down QM principles and their application in a middle income country like India.
AB - Quality management (QM), including quality assurance and quality control, was developed in clinical laboratories in North America and Western Europe, but must be implemented worldwide to ensure accurate, reproducible, and clinically useful results. India, a middle income country with a population of over 1.34 billion, has limited budget allotted to health care. As yet accreditation for clinical laboratories is not mandatory, which contributes to challenges in implementing good laboratory practice. This review provides a summary of internationally laid down QM principles and their application in a middle income country like India.
KW - laboratory automation
KW - laboratory practice
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85065502624
U2 - 10.1111/ijlh.13017
DO - 10.1111/ijlh.13017
M3 - Article
C2 - 31069974
AN - SCOPUS:85065502624
SN - 1751-5521
VL - 41
SP - 177
EP - 183
JO - International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
JF - International Journal of Laboratory Hematology
IS - S1
ER -