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Approaches to improving laboratory quality

  • Dr. Linda Oskam

KIT Biomedical Research, Amsterdam, the Netherlands L.Oskam@kit.nl

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POST -ANALYTICAL PRE-ANALYTICAL ANALYTICAL

RESOURCES THE WORK MEASUREMENT AND IMPROVEMENT Personnel Safety Assessments Equipment Process Control Occurrence Management Purchasing & Inventory Document & Records Customer service Facilities & Safety Information management Process improvement

ORGANIZATION and MANAGEMENT

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Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

Levels of quality implementation

Quality management: coordinated activities to direct and control an

  • rganization with regard to quality

activities and techniques to achieve and maintain the quality of a product, process or service. Quality system: the organizational structure, resources, processes and procedures Quality assurance: prevention of quality problems through planned and systematic activities around processes Quality control: steps taken during the generation of a product or service to ensure product/service quality.

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Licensing, certification and accreditation

Licensing: issued by authorities, to allow an activity that would otherwise be forbidden. It may require proving a capability. Certification: confirmation of certain characteristics of an organization. This confirmation is often provided by external assessment. Accreditation: process in which certification of competency, authority, or credibility is presented.

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National laboratory policy and strategic plan development

  • Sign of political commitment
  • Provides direction
  • Provides criteria for accepting or refusing

activities

  • Makes sure the country is in the driving

seat

  • Essential for developing sustainability

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Education

  • A well-trained workforce with up to date knowledge is essential for

well-functioning laboratories

  • Pre-service training should reflect daily practice
  • In-service for refresher or additional knowledge
  • Training epidemic, but quality of trainings is variable
  • National laboratory policy can give direction to education

development

  • Implementation of a QMS means laboratory decides training needs

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Management and leadership skills

  • Most laboratory managers have technical background, not

managerial background

  • Management and leadership skills are crucial
  • Management training initiatives:
  • SLMTA (Strengthening Laboratory Management Towards Accreditation)
  • LQMS (Laboratory Quality Management System Training)
  • WHO Leadership Course for Laboratory Directors

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Proving your quality: Accreditation

  • Laboratory testing is increasingly recognized as being crucial for

diagnosis, treatment, screening and public health

  • Laboratories want to provide reliable results
  • Clients want to be certain of the results they get
  • Funding agencies want to know that there is no waste of resources

The most widely used accreditation scheme for medical laboratories is ISO 15189: Medical laboratories — Particular requirements for quality and competence Before After

Uganda NTRL accreditation process 2008-2013

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Needs in establishing a Quality Management System

PROBLEM: Standards don’t provide (daily) guidance on implementing requirements

  • Standard requirements translated into activities
  • Explanation on why and how and when to carry out activities
  • Examples of documents, background information on quality

management aspects, etc. No laboratory should have to reinvent the wheel.

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GLI tool

The Global Laboratory Initiative has developed the “Stepwise Process towards TB Laboratory Accreditation”

  • Online tool
  • Designed to guide National TB Laboratories to ISO

15189:2007 accreditation (soon to be updated to ISO 15189:2012)

  • Translation of complete ISO 15189 into activities
  • Divided over 4 phases of implementation with each phase

having a specific focus

  • Supplemented with descriptions on the why and how
  • Links to additional materials (TB CAP, SLMTA, LQMS)
  • Checklists for monitoring progress

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GLI tool – 4 phases

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GLI tool

Available online at: www.GLIquality.org

  • Tool for ALL clinical and public health laboratories that want to

achieve ISO 15189 accreditation

  • Available mid-2013 in English

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Laboratory network structure

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

ISO 15189 Most patients

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Laboratory network evaluation

  • Not for individual laboratories, but for laboratory networks
  • Evaluates network management
  • To ensure quality of all laboratories in the network
  • Based on predefined standards
  • John Ridderhof will present on microscopy network

evaluation

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Designing a tiered quality management system for different levels of laboratories

  • ISO 15189 as the basis
  • Identify and select the key elements (principles) of ISO 15189
  • Standardization
  • Competence
  • Traceability
  • Controls
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Design activities and tools that are suitable for lower level

laboratories

  • For licensing or certification

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Improving laboratory quality - summary

  • National laboratory policies and strategic plans
  • Well trained technical and managerial staff
  • (National reference) laboratories striving for ISO 15189

accreditation

  • GLI tool
  • LQSI tool
  • Network evaluation
  • Tiered quality systems

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

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Acknowledgements

KIT

Tjeerd Datema Mirjam Engelberts Peter Hessels Paul Klatser Stella van Beers

NTRL Uganda

Moses Joloba Christine Korsah Kenneth Musisi

NTRL Benin

Dissou Affolabi Franck Faihun

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl

GLI tool

Martin Baker (Univ. Massachusetts) Chris Gilpin (GLI) John Ridderhof (CDC) Jerod Scholten (KNCV) Tom Shinnick (CDC) Armand van Deun (The Union)

LQSI tool

Sébastien Cognat (WHO Lyon) Katrina Roper (WHO Lyon)

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Thank you

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Examples of specific tools and activities

  • Laboratory handbook
  • Registration book
  • Plastified work instructions
  • Equipment logbooks
  • Monthly work meetings
  • Standardized statistics with interpretation tool

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Accreditation or certification?

  • Each laboratory individually or laboratory networks?
  • According to a national or international standard?
  • Accreditation:
  • Only by offical accreditation body, member of ILAC
  • Certification:
  • By national body

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Creating advantages of accreditation

  • r certification
  • License
  • Payment by insurance
  • Inclusion in social franchising schemes
  • Rebates on consumables/tests from national medical stores
  • Additional training possibilities

Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.kit.nl