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

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Includes bibliographical references.

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

'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. 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'--Provided by publisher.

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