Abstract
Quality assurance in a cytopathology laboratory is achieved by involving all the parties that contributes to cytopathology procedures. Quality assurance measures start with the laboratory directors to the cytopathotechnologists at work. High-quality results are achieved when all the parties work together by following the Standard operation procedures failure to which quality is undermined. Laboratory directors in a cytopathology laboratory are responsible for risk analysis and management. Proper risk analysis techniques help the lab manager to identify the weak points among the technologists. Proper management involves giving out good guidelines or instructions on what should be done to solve the problems that have been identified. There is the need to accredit and comply with the international accepted policies and procedures and excellent documentation to help deal with malpractices. Modern health care has faced a revolution due to a variety of factors, some of which are: newest techniques in laboratory medicine, trained staff operating diagnostic medical laboratories and ultra-modern analytical equipment. A Quality Management System (QMS) has been suggested by the ISO 15189 International Standard, which if followed, can help sustain and improve the testing services offered by diagnostic laboratories, such as cytopathology laboratories. Cytopathology laboratories should only employ laboratory technologists have undergone through the recommended training and have licenses from the regulatory bodies. The staff members of cytopathology laboratory should follow the standard operating procedures. SOPs help in coming up with high-quality results.
Highlights
Medical cytopathology has completely changed its structure by the help of new and improved techniques involving Sciences and Technology
For the maintenance and stability of the rate of progress of a laboratory, certain traits should be stressed upon which include quality monitoring, patients’ rights, standard operation procedures and standards of health care quality, which have been stated by modern cytopathology laboratories (Zima, 2010)
Apart from that, once an investigation has been carried out to grade the quality of a laboratory, the laboratory should make sure to take all necessary actions and precautions to keep consistent the standard of its services and the expectations it has set to the patients. These goals can be obtained by a diagnostic laboratory once it takes into effect an organized Quality Management System (QMS) that is composed of Quality Control and Assurance System (QCAS)
Summary
Gold standards have been set with the advent of liquid-based Papanicolaou testing and various molecular biology techniques resembling the techniques that are used for DNA and RNA identification of Human Papillomaviruses from cervical and/ or histological samples along with computer-assisted screening These new techniques have pushed the prevailing day Papinacolaou testing into a more modern one (Hidalgo et al, 2005; Ronco et al, 2007). Apart from that, once an investigation has been carried out to grade the quality of a laboratory, the laboratory should make sure to take all necessary actions and precautions to keep consistent the standard of its services and the expectations it has set to the patients These goals can be obtained by a diagnostic laboratory once it takes into effect an organized Quality Management System (QMS) that is composed of Quality Control and Assurance System (QCAS). Accuracy is checked whether the end results are close to what is expected at the end of the procedure
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