Laboratory Quality Strengthening

Quality assurance of health care in developing countries

Brown, Lori DiPrete | [ca. 1992]
  • Author(s): Brown, Lori DiPrete
  • Publisher: Quality assurance project
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, health care delivery, primary health care, quality control, standards
This monograph provides an introductory overview of quality assurance for developing countries. It will be of interest to policy makers, upper-level ministry of health officials, and district-level health service managers.

Best practice for developing standards for infectious disease laboratories in Europe

Browning, David M. and Zwetyenga, Joanna | cop. 2010
  • Author(s): Browning, David M. and Zwetyenga, Joanna
  • Publisher: World health organization (WHO). Regional office for Europe
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, disease control, standards
This best practice for developing standards is intended to prompt discussion on how basic standards for all laboratories receiving biological samples from patients may be introduced and implemented. It is intended to be an opportunity for the introduction of standards.

ISO 15189:2003 : a practical tool for the management of quality in the medical laboratory

Burnett, David | 2005
  • Author(s): Burnett, David
  • Publisher: Drustva medicinskih biohemicara Srbije]
  • Pages: 193--200
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, management, quality control, standards
In this article the requirements of ISO 15189:2003 are discussed in the context of a process and outcome based quality management model in which the user’s needs are the central focus.

Malawi : laboratory services and supply chain assessment

Butao, Doris | 2009
  • Author(s): Butao, Doris
  • Publisher: USAID. John Snow, Inc. (JSI)
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, medical supplies, malawi
Report of an assessment of laboratory services and the management of the supply chain for laboratory commodities and equipment in government and health facilities in Malawi, which was conducted by the Ministry of Health, with assistance from the USAID | DELIVER PROJECT.

Developing open source, self-contained disease surveillance software applications for use in resource-limited settings

Campbell, Timothy C. | 2012
  • Author(s): Campbell, Timothy C.
  • Publisher: BioMed central
  • Pages: --
  • Keywords: health services, quality control, standards, developing countries
OpenESSENCE and ESSENCE Desktop Edition are open-source software products with the capability of significantly improving disease surveillance in resource-limited settings. These products can assist resource-limited countries compliance with the revised International Health Regulations.
 

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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.