Patient safety and the medical laboratory using the IOM aims

Examining the quality of medical laboratory services using the perspective of the six IOM aims provides laboratory professionals with numerous opportunities to improve the quality of healthcare and validate the value of medical laboratory test information in improving patients' lives. This necessitates exploring the effects of other healthcare processes upon the TTP, as well as the affect laboratory test information and processes have upon other healthcare delivery processes. It requires using analytical approaches that value data collection, systematic process improvement models and lessons learned in other disciplines.