Laboratory accreditation: quality in management and analysis and the input-output control.

ABSTRACT

An attempt to overcome the uncertainties and errors of all processes in clinical laboratory has been done in systematic ways. To reach the stage of laboratory accreditation, quality and standard criteria in the laboratory must be developed. Two aspects of quality are considered as management and analysis. Input-output control is proposed to handle the process from the beginning of laboratory design until post analytical phase or the control at the outcome. The model of ten Ms including model, material, machine, man, mind, money, method, mechanism, measurement and menace and one O or outcome, is elaborated to cover pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical phases. Laboratory accreditation is then an integral part of hospital accreditation with total quality management.