The implementation of Clinical Governance will require a redefinition of duties and accountability as a prerequisite to develop and achieve an overall improvement in clinical care through a culture of assessment and monitoring of quality...
Keywords: Clinical Governance, External Quality Assessment, interpretative comments, medical laboratories, quality specifications, unacceptable performance
06/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterTroponin quality specifications describing the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical performance of cardiac troponin (cTn) assays are important for both manufacturers of cTn assays and laboratories that routinely test for cTn...
Keywords: Acute coronary syndromes, Cardiac troponin, 99th percentile, pre-analytical, quality specifications
11/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter