Quality assurance and standardization in immunohistochemistry. A proposal for the annual meeting of the Biological Stain Commission, June, 1991.
Quality assurance, quality control, proficiency testing, reagent documentation and validation are standard parts of everyday practice in clinical laboratories throughout the United States. Immunohistochemical stains employ reagents and principles in common with immunoenzyme methods utilized in the clinical laboratory. However, immunohistochemistry has not routinely been subjected to similar standardization and quality assurance procedures that manufacturers and pathologists alike have applied to essentially the same techniques in the clinical laboratory environment. The current proposal was invited by the Biological Stain Commission with the charge of incorporating the findings of previous workshops on quality control in immunohistochemistry into a practical design for implementation. The status of quality assurance, quality control and standardization in immunohistochemistry is reviewed and a phased strategy for implementation is proposed.
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Los Angeles 90033.
D007150:Immunohistochemistry / Q000592:standards*; D007202:Indicators and Reagents / Q000592:standards; D011786:Quality Control; D013194:Staining and Labeling / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards
D007202:Indicators and Reagents