Volume : 6, Issue : 5, May - 2017
The study of the quality services in the Pathology Laboratory of a tertiary care hospital in Eastern region of India
Debjani Mallick
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<p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; text-align: justify;">In today’s scenario of evidence based medicine, maintenance of quality services in the department of Pathology is important to deliver reliable, valid and precise report on the basis of which a patient is put under the treatment plan. A prospective, observational and analytic study was undertaken to study the quality services in the department of Pathology of a tertiary care hospital in Eastern region of India. During the study period, out of 500 samples 17% of the samples were rejected to maintain quality assurance in the laboratory. Factors affecting quality services were studied of which presence of aseptic sample collection showed the highest percentage (97.6%) whereas maintenance of EQUAS showed lowest percentage (66.6%). Root cause analysis of causes of factors affecting quality system were done.Based on the observations certain recommendations were made like training and motivation of staff in various aspects of quality in the Pathology laboratory.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Debjani Mallick, The study of the quality services in the Pathology Laboratory of a tertiary care hospital in Eastern region of India, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : VOLUME-6 | Issue‾5 | May‾2017