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- Title
Does external evaluation of laboratories improve patient safety?
- Authors
Noble, Michael A.
- Abstract
Laboratory accreditation and External Quality Assessment (also called proficiency testing) are mainstays of laboratory quality assessment and performance. Both practices are associated with examples of improved laboratory performance. The relationship between laboratory performance and improved patient safety is more difficult to assess because of the many variables that are involved with patient outcome. Despite this difficulty, the argument to continue external evaluation of laboratories is too compelling to consider the alternative. Clin Chem Lab Med 2007;45:753–5.
- Subjects
LABORATORIES; EVALUATION; ACCREDITATION; DIAGNOSTIC errors; CLINICAL pathology; PATIENT safety
- Publication
Clinical Chemistry & Laboratory Medicine, 2007, Vol 45, Issue 6, p753
- ISSN
1434-6621
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/CCLM.2007.166