12. Role of on line and off line facilities IN CLINICAL
Laboratory Practice
Clinical laboratory
practice begins with the understanding of the requirements to set up the
laboratory, permission from the competent authority, clearances from the
concerned section and other organizational work. Commercial companies do offer
ready to use infrastructure with provision of furniture and fixture. One then
needs is the equipment, chemicals, consumables, disposables and many other
related items. The on line scholarly software package known as Entrepreneur
Resource Programming can and should take care of this. The other major
requirement is approved methodology for the laboratory parameters to be
estimated / examined. This includes parameters under different sub specialities
of laboratory sciences such as Biochemistry, Microbiology, etc. This is
generally followed by internal quality control, external quality assurance, etc.
Then come the generation of reports on the specimens analysed and the data
handling.
The
certification of the laboratory is a mandatory process for some while for others
it could be just registration with the competent authority. In either case,
adherence to the guidelines is a must. An ambitious laboratory Director will
upgrade the set up to seek an accreditation from National / International
agency. The preparation of Quality System Manual is a pre requisite and on line
/ off line facility can play a crucial role in this.
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