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.
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.
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.
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.
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.