title: The issue of quality of personnel.
abstract: Sophisticated laboratory tests must be performed by competent personnel. But how is that competence to be judged? This paper argues that determination of personnel competence be left up to individual laboratory directors and supervisors. Likewise, accountability for having competent employees on staff should reside with the laboratory director. This paper suggests that professional organizations create reasonable standards of knowledge and competence that individual laboratory supervisors can apply to their own employees.
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000592:standards*; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care