Evaluación de los requisitos técnicos de los servicios prestados por los laboratorios clínicos privados del cantón Ambato

Abstract

The technical requirements contemplated in a reference standard such as ISO 15189 for clinical laboratories in charge of analyzing biological samples are defined as topics to be fulfilled by clinical laboratories aspiring to achieve true quality management and their acceptance demonstrates that a laboratory is technically competent and capable of issuing technically valid results. The present investigative work is of a descriptive, qualitative and bibliographic nature which, through the consultation of bibliographic sources and information collection instruments in the form of surveys of technical managers of 80 private laboratories in the Ambato canton, showed in the form of percentages the answers that The respondents provided each question related to each technical requirement required by the ISO 15189 standard, in addition to making a detailed interpretation of each question relating the theoretical knowledge and the importance that the technical managers of the laboratories give to each requirement. The continuous search for quality and mechanisms that facilitate its real implementation to issue results that are clinically useful for patients and clinical professionals constitutes the importance of this study.