WHY THE LABORATORIES NEED QUALITY CONTROL AND STANDARDIZATION
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Standardization and quality control in medical laboratories are essential to ensure accurate test results and credible data. Laboratories need to implement procedures like documentation, standard operating procedures, quality control samples, and external quality assessment to reliably monitor testing and calibration. Achieving quality requires tools like procedure manuals, maintenance schedules, calibrations, training, and quality control. The current state of many private laboratories in India is problematic, as testing and reporting of bacteriological cultures is often done without proper qualifications, leading to inaccurate reporting of antibiotic sensitivity and a risk of increasing antibiotic resistance. Regulations and accountability are needed to improve standards in medical laboratories.
WHY THE LABORATORIES NEED QUALITY CONTROL AND STANDARDIZATION
- 1. WHY THE LABORATORIES NEED QUALITY CONTROL AND STANDARDIZATION Dr.T.V.Rao MD Quality control in the medical laboratory is a statistical process used to monitor and evaluate the analytical process that produces patient results. Well-executed standardization programs greatly improve the quality of laboratory measurements that are used to detect signs of illnesses and to guide interventions to prevent or treat illnesses. Standardization also ensures the production of credible and comparable data across laboratories—a boon to epidemiologists and researchers who may need to pool data from multiple sources. Today Medical profession is Money making machine for many by so many vagaries in the System, Government of India has started Many Medical colleges, to stop the quackery, and to replace the Medical Profession with qualified Doctors, However the Laboratory system never touched by the Medical council of India or Ministry of health, there are many dangers await to the innocent people by the inefficient and commission oriented Laboratories, Today many qualified Doctors are least interested in doing a proper clinical evaluation, and have become believers of the Laboratories, and going to harm many innocent people when the conflicts of interests are very high, as when the Doctors send for MRI, and CT scans many can get faster easier money than the consultation. The condition of private laboratories are really pathetic as far concerned with Microbiology. A person without any proper qualification talk many things, without doing a proper culture examination, and all irrelevant Antibiotics are tested on every isolate, and reported to be sensitive, and really quackery enter when the Doctors believe the Medical representatives and have least time to read the fundamentals of Antibiotics, I am happy one of my senior colleague talked in one the conference In India it is impossible to implement the Antibiotic policy, Antibiotic stewardship as the matters have become out of control, in this process India and like some developing Nations will become a paradise for SUPERBUGS. Never forget we are all potential future patients and SUPERBUGS do not spare us, and we will kill many of our patients, if there is no proper beginning with implementing minimal standards in the system, which depends on reliable assessment of testing and calibration laboratories, inspection agencies and fabricator inspection programs. Accurate test, calibration and inspection results are vital for the protection of public health and safety and to facilitate trade. Some where we have to improve with Proficiency testing and inter laboratory comparisons are two closely related methods that a laboratory may use to demonstrate technical competence. PT/ILC provides independent feedback concerning a laboratory's actual performance, and can be used as a tool to monitor improvement efforts. In future India has to progress from vagaries by the private laboratories without proper accountability it is a life threat to innocent patients however we can make it, if the law makers to initiate guidelines for accountability in the private laboratories, However The maintenance of a quality management system is crucial to a laboratory for providing the correct test results every time. Important elements of a quality management system include: we can begin with Documentation Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's) Quality Control samples External Quality Assessment Scheme
- 2. Quality control Are procedures used in each assay to assure a test run is valid and results are reliable? Kit Controls Quality Control Samples Never forget we need many efforts to improve our laboratory system Achieving quality in the medical laboratory requires the use of many tools. These include procedure manuals, maintenance schedules, calibrations, a quality assurance program, training and quality control. I wish to express one thing with certainty, testing Bacteriological cultures and identification without qualified Medical personal is a life threat to many, Nevertheless the Future Generation of Medical Microbiologists should fight for their place in the system to make the matters creditable with integrity and professionalism. If there are no minimal regulations in the system WILL BE A GENERATOR OF MANY SUPERBUGS, Just think who is at Risk the patient, you, me and every one ? The grave life threat awaits from many Bacteriology laboratories run without qualified people start reporting every bacterial isolate with every available antibiotic and the physicians choosing these reports to treat is a grave life threat. And spread of undesired Antibiotic resistance in the hospital environment and create SUPERBUGS I pray we should not be victims in the system of laboratories which are loaded with kickbacks and quackery and non-scientific approaches? Dr.T.V.Rao MD Professor of Microbiology Freelance writer