Instrument quality assurance for test result quality and laboratory operation.
To assure the quality of the clinical laboratory analytical process, each element composing that process must be tested for quality control--including the laboratory instruments. This article concerns itself with three areas of instrument quality control, areas which result in a prolongation of equipment life and a general improvement in laboratory quality.
D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards; D008283:Maintenance / Q000592:standards*; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011786:Quality Control; D014481:United States