EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE - AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN CLINICAL LABORATORIES

Citation
Wm. Halbmayer et al., EXTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE - AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN CLINICAL LABORATORIES, Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift, 107(16), 1995, pp. 500-506
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, General & Internal
ISSN journal
00435325
Volume
107
Issue
16
Year of publication
1995
Pages
500 - 506
Database
ISI
SICI code
0043-5325(1995)107:16<500:EQA-AE>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
An external quality assurance system in the medical diagnostic laborat ory, which is an essential part of the modern total quality management (TQM) concept in the public hearth system, was established in Austria already 25 years ago. The development and the scope of this quality a ssessment system by the ''Austrian Society for Quality Assurance and S tandardization of Analyses in the Clinical Laboratory'' (OQUASTA) are presented. The decreasing coefficients of variation of several paramet ers of the external quality assessment exercises demonstrate an increa sing analytical precision and might be interpreted as an effect of thi s quality assurance system.