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Michael A. Noble

Does external evaluation of laboratories improve patient safety?

Keywords: accreditation, Evaluation, laboratory, proficiency testing

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.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 45, 06/2007
Pages: 753 - 755

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