Quality control revisited.

Pathologist

Published: July 1980

AI Article Synopsis

  • Quality Control is essential in clinical laboratories and is primarily the responsibility of the laboratory director.
  • Individual lab sections need complex quality control procedures, but a cohesive overview and comprehensive policies are also necessary for the lab as a whole.
  • The article expands on a guide provided by Dr. Diamond in 1977 for creating a comprehensive quality control statement for laboratories.

Article Abstract

Quality Control is a way of life for today's clinical laboratory and the direct responsibility of its director. While individual laboratory sections require quality control procedures of ever-growing complexity, there also is need for an overview and the statement of policies that concern the laboratory as a whole. In the August 1977 issue of Pathologist (I & A Center, pp. 442-444), Dr. Diamond, regional commissioner for the northeast, described a guide for a comprehensive quality control statement. The following article is an expansion and development of that statement.

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