Quality assurance and quality control

How pathologists and laboratory medicine professionals are key contributors to safe and effective patient care

Medical laboratory assistants play a key role in quality control and the prevention of laboratory errors

David Rimm continues the conversation about the best assay for atezolizumab after a recent response to his original article

This year’s International Pathology Day was all about point-of-care testing – so how do the experts think quality can be delivered across the board?

How can we develop laboratory standards and regulations in India to close the gap between the services we offer and the services our patients need?

Diagnostic errors are a high-priority patient safety issue – and image analysis using artificial intelligence could help detect and prevent mistakes

To provide diagnostic algorithms with uniform, valid input, digital pathology images must be standardized to real-world colors

Digital pathology can be hampered by poor-quality slide images, but HistoQC aims to address the issue by automatically filtering slides by quality

Washing and reusing pipette tips could open the door to a greener and cheaper future for laboratories

QC operations are costly for laboratories – but more efficient materials with better long-term stability can reduce those investments and save lives