Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0521439833, Paperback)

Quality control is an essential aspect of the safe, efficient and reliable functioning of microbiology laboratories. Quality control contributes accuracy to diagnostic results and facilitates standardisation and comparison between laboratories. This manual sets out the principles of quality control and provides clear, detailed information on the practical ways in which good quality control can be achieved and maintained in the microbiology laboratory. The contributors to the volume have been drawn from a wide range of disciplines and each of them looks in practical detail at the implementation of quality control in the day-to-day operations of the medical microbiology laboratory.