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Redefining and expanding quality assurance.

J L Robins1

  • 1New York Blood Center, New York.

Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|December 1, 1992
PubMed
Summary

Implementing organization-wide quality assurance and total quality management is crucial for blood establishments. This approach ensures high-quality products and services through continuous improvement and error-free processing.

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Area of Science:

  • Biomedical Science
  • Healthcare Management

Background:

  • Current standards necessitate a shift towards comprehensive quality management in blood establishments.
  • Industry insights highlight the need for organization-wide adoption of quality assurance and total quality management.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To redefine quality assurance to include proactive quality planning.
  • To emphasize continuous quality improvement as a core strategy for blood establishments.
  • To align auditing processes with the objective of error-free processing.

Main Methods:

  • Redefining quality assurance to incorporate a quality planning function.
  • Implementing a formalized quality planning process within the quality assurance framework.
  • Realigning auditing processes to support continuous improvement and error-free objectives.

Main Results:

  • Quality assurance is redefined to include quality planning as a key component.
  • Continuous quality improvement is identified as the essential strategy for blood establishments.
  • Auditing processes are realigned to facilitate the objective of error-free processing.

Conclusions:

  • Organization-wide quality assurance/total quality management is essential for meeting excellence standards.
  • A formalized quality planning process is integral to effective quality assurance.
  • Continuous quality improvement and error-free processing are the long-term objectives for blood establishments.

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