title: Establishment of national laboratory standards in public and private hospital laboratories.
abstract: In September 2007 national standard manual was finalized and officially announced as the minimal quality requirements for all medical laboratories in the country. Apart from auditing laboratories, Reference Health Laboratory has performed benchmarking auditing of medical laboratory network (surveys) in provinces. 12(th) benchmarks performed in Tehran and Alborz provinces, Iran in 2010 in three stages. We tried to compare different processes, their quality and accordance with national standard measures between public and private hospital laboratories. The assessment tool was a standardized checklist consists of 164 questions. Analyzing process show although in most cases implementing the standard requirements are more prominent in private laboratories, there is still a long way to complete fulfillment of requirements, and it takes a lot of effort. Differences between laboratories in public and private sectors especially in laboratory personnel and management process are significant. Probably lack of motivation, plays a key role in obtaining less desirable results in laboratories in public sectors.
authors.affiliation: Reference Health Laboratories Research Center, Ministry of Health & Medical Education, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Soghra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Anjarani
authors.forename: Nooshafarin
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Safadel
authors.forename: Parisa
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dahim
authors.forename: Rana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Amini
authors.forename: Saeed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mahdavi
authors.forename: Siamak
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mirab Samiee
keywords: Hospital; Iran; Laboratory; Standards