title: Essentials of quality in "the gold standard veterinary clinical trial".
abstract: Quality Assurance (QA) has played a pivotal role within Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) since its inception in 1976. GLP is now recognized as a quality standard, as can be seen from the introductory statement of the recently issued OECD Principles of GLP (revised in 1997) that clearly state "GLP is a quality system concerned with the organisational process and the conditions under which non-clinical health and environmental safety studies are planned, performed, monitored, recorded, archived and reported". We can, therefore, see a close comparison between GLP compliance and the ISO/EN accreditation systems that have been adopted by other institutes on a worldwide basis.
authors.affiliation: Country Consultancy Ltd, Milton Malsor, England, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: N J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Dent
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards*; D003625:Data Collection; D004282:Documentation; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design; D014730:Veterinary Medicine