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Laboratory Quality Strengthening

The World health organization African region laboratory accreditation process : improving the quality of laboratory systems in the African region

Gershy-Damet, Guy-Michel | 2010
  • Author(s): Gershy-Damet, Guy-Michel
  • Publisher: American society for clinical pathology (ASCP)
  • Pages: 393--400
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, standards, capacity building, africa
This article discusses the accreditation process developed by the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO AFRO). This stepwise approach acknowledges to laboratories where they stand, supports them with a series of evaluations to use to demonstrate improvement, and recognizes and rewards their progress.

Status of development and implementation of medical laboraties accreditation in Serbia = Status razvoja i implementacije akreditacije medicinskih laboratorija u Srbiji

Gligic, Ljubinka | 2008
  • Author(s): Gligic, Ljubinka
  • Publisher: Versita]
  • Pages: 144--147
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, quality control, standards, serbia
This article describes the process of implementing the ISO 15189:2003 standard for medical laboratories in Serbia.

Promoting good clinical laboratory practices and laboratory accreditation to support clinical trials in sub-Saharan Africa

Guindo, Merepen A. | 2012
  • Author(s): Guindo, Merepen A.
  • Publisher: The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene
  • Pages: 573--579
  • Keywords: standards, medical research, scientific facilities, health services
The University of Bamako and its partners have undertaken a comprehensive QMS plan to improve quality and productivity using the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute standards and guidelines. Their efforts to implement high-quality standards may be valuable to other research groups.

ISO 15189 accreditation experience at the microbiology laboratory of a Turkish university hospital

Gurol, Yesim | 2011
  • Author(s): Gurol, Yesim
  • Publisher: Academic journals
  • Pages: 3062--3065
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, hospitals, standards, turkey
The authors of this article aim to share the experience of the ISO/IEC 15189:2007 accreditation process in a university hospital’s medical microbiology laboratory before and after the assessment, and try to seek answers to some questions in applying the standard.

ISO 15189 accreditation : requirements for quality and competence of medical laboratories, experience of a laboratory I

Guzel, Omer and Guner, Ebru Ilhan | 2009
  • Author(s): Guzel, Omer and Guner, Ebru Ilhan
  • Publisher: Elsevier science
  • Pages: 274--278
  • Keywords: health services, scientific facilities, standardization, turkey
This article describes the experiences of a Turkish clinical laboratory with the ISO 15189 accreditation process.
 

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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.