title: The cost of quality control.
abstract: Quality control and quality assurance increasingly are under evaluation. The number of procedures required to guarantee the medical reliability of the data generated by clinical laboratories has grown steadily with little or no signs of abating. Laboratorians would do well to anticipate the cost/benefit questions that appear inevitable. In this article, the author adduces some cost data.
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006744:Hospital Bed Capacity, 100 to 299; D007753:Laboratories / Q000191:economics*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D011786:Quality Control; D012237:Rhode Island