Section 5.10 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Diagnostic Excellence: Laboratory, Imaging and Blood Bank Standards
Laboratory, imaging and blood bank quality, turnaround times, critical result notification and equipment maintenance.
The issue
Delayed or inaccurate diagnosis contributes to poor outcomes. The framework should address laboratory quality, radiology standards, turnaround times, blood bank standards, safe transfusion protocols, equipment calibration, diagnostic reporting, critical result notification, accreditation readiness for labs and imaging units, and training of biomedical technicians to maintain diagnostic equipment.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Laboratory quality
- 02Radiology standards
- 03Turnaround times
- 04Blood bank standards
- 05Safe transfusion protocols
- 06Equipment calibration
- 07Diagnostic reporting
- 08Critical result notification
- 09Accreditation readiness for labs and imaging units
- 10Biomedical technician training
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.