Quality control revisited

Abstract

Quality Control is a way of life for today's clinical laboratory and the direct responsibility of its director. While individual laboratory sections require quality control procedures of ever-growing complexity, there also is need for an overview and the statement of policies that concern the laboratory as a whole. In the August 1977 issue of Pathologist (I & A Center, pp. 442-444), Dr. Diamond, regional commissioner for the northeast, described a guide for a comprehensive quality control statement. The following article is an expansion and development of that statement.