Quality Management in a Hemostasis Laboratory

Quality assurance in a clinical laboratory is essential to ensure reliable, accurate and precise laboratory test results all the time. A hemostasis laboratory is an important part of a clinical laboratory setting in a hospital or a healthcare center, and clinical laboratory tests play a crucial role in diagnosis and management of conditions related to bleeding or clotting of diseased individuals. This review discusses all aspects of coagulation laboratory testing from pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical variables as part of daily quality assurance processes undertaken as well as the quality management process of assay validation and implementation in a laboratory prior to patient testing. The internal and external quality processes that drive a hemostasis laboratory will be discussed that shows a rigorous process in assurance of testing that is reliable and accurate every time, at all times.