Laboratory Quality Standards and Their Implementation

Paperback
November 2011
9789290223979
More details
  • Publisher
    World Health Organization
  • Published
    1st November 2011
  • ISBN 9789290223979
  • Language English
  • Pages 62 pp.
  • Size 8" x 11.25"
$24.00

Establishing and maintaining laboratory quality standards are essential to generate reliable results to support clinical and public health actions. The Laboratory Quality Standards present a minimum set of standards that can be readily adapted by countries and applied to laboratories at every level of the health-care system.

This book also outlines mechanism to implement them. This book will be of help to national policy-makers as well as regulators in developing national laboratory quality standards. It provides a simple approach to meet the minimum requirements set with the ultimate objective to comply with ISO 15189 in a logical and step-by-step manner.

WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia

WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia