Title: Quality Management for the Medical Laboratory
1Quality Managementfor the Medical Laboratory
- Michael Noble MD FRCPC
- Chair Program Office for Laboratory Quality
Management - Medical Director for Quality LifeLabs BC
2Books Worth Reading
- The Deming Method by M.Worth
- ISO 9000 Essentials CSA
- ISO 151892003 Essentials CSA
- CLSI HS1
- CLSI GP26A3
3Outline
- Why Medical Laboratories need Quality Management
- Abbreviated History of Quality Management
- Historys evolution to Standards and Guidelines
- Quality Partnerships
- Progress to the Quality Toolbox
4- Seventy percent of clinical medicine decision
making is predicated upon, or confirmed by, or
documented by medical laboratory test results.
Dighe, A. S., Medicolegal liability in
laboratory medicine, Semin Diagn Pathol, 2007
5- In the United States there are between 7 and 10
billion laboratory tests reported annually.Boone
DJ, IQLM, 2005 - 15 of patients in a 5 country study receive
either incorrect or delayed reports on abnormal
results. Boone DJ, IQLM, 2005
6Why Medical Laboratories need Quality Management
- Medical Laboratories
- Highly complex operations
- Individuals doing complex tasks
- Absolute need for Accuracy
- Absolute need for Confidentiality
- Absolute need for Time Effectiveness
- Absolute need for Cost Effectiveness
7But lots of evidence to the contrary
- Belk and Sunderman (1947)
- CLIA 66
- CLIA 88
- Maryland General
- Newfoundland
- Manitoba
8Quality Management is not new
- - Walter Shewhart
- Statistical Process Control
- PDCA
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9Management Principles
- 1940 - J Edwards Deming - The Fourteen Points
- Create constancy of purpose of product and
service - Adopt a new philosophy (mistakes are
unacceptable) - Cease dependence on mass inspection
- Stop the process of awarding business on price
alone. - Improve constantly and forever the production and
service - Institute training
- Institute leadership
- Drive out fear
- Break down barriers between staff areas.
- Eliminate slogans and targets
- Eliminate numerical quotas
- Remove barriers to pride in workmanship
- Institute vigorous education and retraining
- Take action to accomplish the transformation
10- J Edwards Demining The seven deadly diseases
- Lack of constancy of purpose
- Emphasis on short term profits
- Evaluation by performance
- Mobility of Management
- Running a company on visible figures alone.
- Excessive medical costs.
- Excessive costs or warranty.
11- In the U.S., industry did not want to listen
- But Japan did.
12Philip Crosby1926-2001Doing it right the first
time
- Quality is conformance to requirements
Who sets the requirements? Regulators Respected
Authority Professional Bodies Customers Internal
Audit
13Standards Development
BSI
ISO
ISO 9000 ISO 17025 ISO 15189
NATO
CDC CLSI WHO
ABCA
US Military
Deming
THE WORLD
Shewhart
14Standards and Quality Management
Audit Review
Responsibility Authority
Training Competency
Q Manual SOPs Control
Monitor
15CONTINUAL IMPROVEMENT
16Different and the Same
17Quest Path to Success
18CLSI Quality ManagementHS012001
19Quality PartnershipsMedical Laboratory
20The silent diagnosis
- The UnknownAs we know, there are known knowns.
There are things we know we know. We also know
there are known unknowns. That is to say we
know there are some things we do not know. But
there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we
don't know we don't know.
Donald Rumsfeld Department of Defense news
briefing Feb. 12, 2002
21An effective quality management system Defends
against The Unknown Unknown