International Journal of Clinical Biochemistry and Research
Year : 2018, Volume : 5, Issue : 2
First page : ( 164) Last page : ( 167)
Print ISSN : 2394-6369. Online ISSN : 2394-6377.
Article DOI : 10.18231/2394-6377.2018.0033

Errors in laboratory medicine: The role of quality indicators

Mohanty Sucharita*

Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha, India

*Corresponding Author: Email: dr.sucharitamohanty@gmail.com

Online published on 2 January, 2019.

Abstract

Errors in laboratory are heterogeneous in nature as it involves various complex procedures and a variety of persons preforming all the processes, starting from ordering of tests to reporting of result to its influence on ultimate patient care. The core job of a laboratory is to produce the correct test result. If we can't get the test results right, then we aren't doing our core job. It's our profession to know all the details of testing and instrumentation and quality control. It's our profession to assure that test results are correct. Improvements need not be only at "pre" or "post" or "analytical" -it should be at all three stages, as the consequence of error in any of the stage is the same: poor patient care. No error is worse than the other. We must make efforts on all fronts. Even if this means making small improvements in each area, a unified improvement effort will achieve better test results and better patient care than narrow efforts in either the pre-, post-or analytical area. To have a uniform consensus, the laboratories should have certain quality indicators to have control over the procedures that tend to generate errors.

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Keywords

Pre analytical, Analytical, Post analytical phase, Quality Indicators.

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