ReviewVirchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology2016
Sense and nonsense in the process of accreditation of a pathology laboratory.
Review in Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.
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Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Comparison of Two Rapid Assays for the Detection ofDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Laboratory professionals' attitudes towards ISO 15189:2012 accreditation: an anonymous survey of three Croatian accredited medical laboratories.Biochemia medica · 2021Article
- Challenges and issues surrounding the use for translational research of human samples obtained during the COVID-19 pandemic from lung cancer patients.Translational lung cancer research · 2020Review
- The challenges of evaluating predictive biomarkers using small biopsy tissue samples and liquid biopsies from non-small cell lung cancer patients.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Review
- An Introduction to Starting a Biobank.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2019Review
- Tumor mutational burden assessment as a predictive biomarker for immunotherapy in lung cancer patients: getting ready for prime-time or not?Translational lung cancer research · 2018Review
- Monitoring BRAF and NRAS mutations with cell-free circulating tumor DNA from metastatic melanoma patients.Oncotarget · 2018Article
- Accreditation, setting and experience as indicators to assure quality in oncology biomarker testing laboratories.British journal of cancer · 2018Article
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- Liquid biopsies come of age: towards implementation of circulating tumour DNA.Nature reviews. Cancer · 2017Review
- Pathologists and liquid biopsies: to be or not to be?Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2016Review
- Assessment of the PD-L1 status by immunohistochemistry: challenges and perspectives for therapeutic strategies in lung cancer patients.Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology · 2016Review
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Abstract
The aim of accreditation of a pathology laboratory is to control and optimize, in a permanent manner, good professional practice in clinical and molecular pathology, as defined by internationally established standards. Accreditation of a pathology laboratory is a key element in fine in increasing recognition of the quality of the analyses performed by a laboratory and in improving the care it provides to patients. One of the accreditation standards applied to clinical chemistry and pathology laboratories in the European Union is the ISO 15189 norm. Continued functioning of a pathology laboratory might in time be determined by whether or not it has succeeded the accreditation process. Necessary requirements for accreditation, according to the ISO 15189 norm, include an operational quality management system and continuous control of the methods used for diagnostic purposes. Given these goals, one would expect that all pathologists would agree on the positive effects of accreditation. Yet, some of the requirements stipulated in the accreditation standards, coming from the bodies that accredit pathology laboratories, and certain normative issues are perceived as arduous and sometimes not adapted to or even useless in daily pathology practice. The aim of this review is to elaborate why it is necessary to obtain accreditation but also why certain requirements for accreditation might be experienced as inappropriate.
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