Laboratory Quality Strengthening

Laboratory assessment tool

Bergeri, Isabel | 2012
  • Author(s): Bergeri, Isabel
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: disease control, quality control, guidelines
This document offers guidance to assess laboratories and the national laboratory system. It describes a general process for assessing laboratories and provides questionnaires to help assessing the national laboratory system and individual laboratories.

Laboratory quality management : a roadmap

Berte, Lucia M. | 2007
  • Author(s): Berte, Lucia M.
  • Publisher: Elsevier [etc.]
  • Pages: 771--790
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, management
In 1999, a committee representing laboratory, industry, and government perspectives, produced the first medical laboratory-specific quality management system (QMS) model. This article discusses the individual elements of this model.

Managing laboratory quality : a systematic approach

Berte, Lucia M. | 2004
  • Author(s): Berte, Lucia M.
  • Publisher: The American society for clinical pathology (ASCP)
  • Pages: 621--624
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, management
This article describes quality systems essentials for medical laboratories.

Health organizations launch new lab accreditation process : government and health officials from across Africa meet

Birx, Debbie | 2009
  • Author(s): Birx, Debbie
  • Publisher: HBL media
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, standards, africa south of sahara
Global Health TV reports as the WHO, CDC, Clinton Foundation and American Society for Clinical Pathology unveil a new five-step laboratory accreditation plan that aims to improve and standardize the quality of lab work in Africa.

Laboratory challenges in the scaling up of HIV, TB, and malaria programs : the interaction of health and laboratory systems, clinical research, and service delivery

Birx, Deborah and De Souza, Mark and Nkengasong, John N. | 2009
  • Author(s): Birx, Deborah and De Souza, Mark and Nkengasong, John N.
  • Publisher: American society for clinical pathology (ASCP)
  • Pages: 849--851
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities
Despite strong commitment from the international community to fight major infectious diseases, weak laboratory infrastructure remains a huge rate-limiting step. This article discusses some major challenges facing laboratory systems in resource-poor settings.
 

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This portal provides background information for KIT's training programme on laboratory quality management, which enables laboratories in resource-constrained countries to improve the quality of their services. Use the searchbox to find resources in the database.