World Quality Week
Why focus on quality assurance is a safeguard to healthcare excellence.
In medical diagnostic, the cornerstone of precision and reliability lies in quality assurance. Its practice is not merely a formality but a fundamental necessity that underpins the integrity and accuracy of the results. The highest standards of quality assurance are therefore paramount to safeguarding patient care and upholding the credibility of healthcare institutions.
In layman’s language, Quality Assurance (QA) is a planned, and systematic set of quality activities focused on providing confidence that quality requirements will be fulfilled by medical laboratories to improve the quality and clinical usefulness of medical laboratory test results. It includes training of personnel, purchase, and maintenance of equipment and reagents, the analytical process itself, and reporting and interpretation of results.
In a typical diagnostic setup, quality assurance entails three phases: pre-analytical, analytical & post-analytical phases.