New tools for laboratory design and management

Truchaud, A.; Neel, Tanguy Le; Brochard, H; Malvaux, S; Moyon, Marine; Cazaubiel, Murielle

doi:10.1093/clinchem/43.9.1709

Cited by 22 publications

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“…clinically active persons, the industry, standardization organizations, professional organizations and individual laboratories. They do also include all aspects of the process from the clinical decision to use the clinical chemistry laboratory in diagnosis through preparing the patient, taking- and transporting the samples ( 44 ), measuring the samples and reporting the results and including the interpretation of the results in the clinical ( Figure 1 ).…”

Section: The Extraanalytical Phases Of the Total Testing Chainmentioning

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Quality Assurance in Clinical Chemistry: A Touch of Statistics and A Lot of Common Sense

Theodorsson

2016

Journal of Medical Biochemistry

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SummaryWorking in laboratories of clinical chemistry, we risk feeling that our personal contribution to quality is small and that statistical models and manufacturers play the major roles. It is seldom sufficiently acknowledged that personal knowledge, skills and common sense are crucial for quality assurance in the interest of patients. The employees, environment and procedures inherent to the laboratory including its interactions with the clients are crucial for the overall result of the total testing chain. As the measurement systems, reagents and procedures are gradually improved, work on the preanalytical, postanalytical and clinical phases is likely to pay the most substantial dividends in accomplishing further quality improvements. This means changing attitudes and behaviour, especially of the users of the laboratory. It requires understanding people and how to engage them in joint improvement processes. We need to use our knowledge and common sense expanded with new skills e.g. from the humanities, management, business and change sciences in order to bring this about together with the users of the laboratory.

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Section: The Extraanalytical Phases Of the Total Testing Chainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality Assurance in Clinical Chemistry: A Touch of Statistics and A Lot of Common Sense

Theodorsson

2016

Journal of Medical Biochemistry

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“…The multisites evaluation of KRYPTOR compact was realized on three sites: the “Centre de Recherche en Technologie Biomédicale” included in the Institute of Clinical Biology of the University Hospital of Nantes (France), the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of Rostock (Germany) and the Biochemistry Laboratory of the General Hospital of Thionville (France). 6…”

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“…These immunoassay systems are integrated in the global activity of laboratory platforms managed in a laboratory network. 1,2 Besides full automation including sample sorting, preparation, and transportation, there is a demand from the users for compact automated immunoassay systems adapted to laboratories which demand special parameters with a medium or smaller throughput such as urgent requests or highly specialized activities. Here we present such an instrument using an original analytical concept developed in cooperation with Pr.…”

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An Innovative Modular Approach in an Automated Compact Immunoassay System

Truchaud

Bois²,

Ferré

et al. 2009

JALA: Journal of the Association for Laboratory Automation

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T he KRYPTOR compact (CEZANNE SAS) is an innovative automated immunoassay system using a homogeneous technology avoiding separation and washing steps. The main innovation of the KRYPTOR compact is the modular design of the instrument including two separable parts: a pipeting module and a reading module. The transportable reagents cassette includes an original cooling system activated when it is on board. The system is selfchecking, reagents are precalibrated with only two points of verification by the user, fast and easy to maintain. A first multisites evaluation of the analytical performances and practicability proved the ability of this system to answer well to laboratories that demand special parameters with a medium or smaller throughput such as urgent requests or highly specialized activities. ( JALA 2009;14:41e48)

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“…Turnaround time includes the pre-analytical phase (expressed in this study as initial administrative processes), analytical and post-analytical time (expressed as report writing, report review, report approval and collection by client), which implements wider categorization of the processes than literature reports [1] [8] G. C. Omari et al…”

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Analysis of Turnaround Time during Casefile and Sample Processing in Forensic Science Laboratory

Omari¹,

Manyele²,

Mwaluko³

2018

ENG

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Turnaround time (TAT), is the total time interval from when a request for forensic laboratory analysis is received until when the results are collected by the client. The performance of the forensic science laboratory (FSL) is affected by extended TAT in the case-file and sample processing steps necessitating critical analysis reported in this paper. The total TAT was obtained as the sum of measured time interval for each work station (six of which were studied). Extended TAT leads not only to customer complaints, but also paves way for customers to seek for services from competitors, leading to lost competitive edge for the FSL. This study was conducted to establish the baseline data on TAT (between 2014 and 2015) to enable implementation of corrective actions. Six casefile processing steps were identified for which starting and completion times were recorded in dates, giving TAT values in days. The TAT data for each step was collected as each case file is processed and analyzed separately using statistical analysis while comparing the data for the two years (Y2014 and Y2015) and among three forensic science laboratory disciplines (biology/DNA, chemistry and toxicology). The overall turnaround time (TTAT) was the highest for forensic biology/DNA compared to forensic toxicology and chemistry. The analysis time (TAT 2) was the longest of all six case-file processing steps. Using Pareto analysis, the three major steps necessitating root-cause analysis and intervention to minimize TAT were analysis turnaround time (TAT 2), report collection time (TAT 6) and report review time (TAT 4). It was concluded that the causes for extended TAT are within control by the FSL management, although financial and human resources are required.

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New tools for laboratory design and management

Cited by 22 publications

References 6 publications

Quality Assurance in Clinical Chemistry: A Touch of Statistics and A Lot of Common Sense

Quality Assurance in Clinical Chemistry: A Touch of Statistics and A Lot of Common Sense

An Innovative Modular Approach in an Automated Compact Immunoassay System

Analysis of Turnaround Time during Casefile and Sample Processing in Forensic Science Laboratory

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