Abstract
The role of national health laboratories in support of public health response has expanded beyond laboratory testing to include a number of other core functions such as emergency response, training and outreach, communications, laboratory-based surveillance and data management. These functions can only be accomplished by an efficient and resilient national laboratory network that includes public health, reference, clinical and other laboratories. It is a primary responsibility of the national health laboratory in the Ministry of Health to develop and maintain the national laboratory network in the country. In this article, we present practical recommendations based on 17 years of network development experience for the development of effective national laboratory networks. These recommendations and examples of current laboratory networks, are provided to facilitate laboratory network development in other states. The development of resilient, integrated laboratory networks will enhance each state’s public health system and is critical to the development of a robust national laboratory response network to meet global health security threats.
Highlights
Authors: Michele Best[1] Jean Sakande[2] Affiliations: 1Corporate Director of Laboratories, Dimensions Healthcare System, Cheverly, Maryland, United States
These functions can only be accomplished by an efficient and resilient national laboratory network that includes public health, reference, clinical and other laboratories. It is a primary responsibility of the national health laboratory in the Ministry of Health to develop and maintain the national laboratory network in the country
We present practical recommendations based on 17 years of network development experience for the development of effective national laboratory networks
Summary
Standard operating procedures must be understood by staff and implemented to ensure overall test reliability, which includes accuracy and precision. After equipment and testing methods are determined and harmonised, standard operating procedures should be developed by the quality unit at the central level for all laboratories in the network. These standard documents can serve as templates for all laboratories and be modified to meet the needs of individual laboratories. This reduces the amount of time spent on developing standard operating procedures at each laboratory in the network. Experts in the equipment http://www.ajlmonline.org system or assay are usually the best persons to develop the standard operating procedures for dissemination to the other network laboratories. A document control system must be in place for all laboratory documents
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