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Quality Management Systems and Accreditation

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Key Points

• International and national standards

• Accreditation and certification

• Accreditation process and accreditation bodies

• Quality management in genetic laboratories

• Quality control, quality assessment, quality assurance and quality improvement

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank dr. Michael Morris for the input and critical reading of this chapter.

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  1. Department of Medical Diagnostics, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

    Els. Dequeker

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  1. Dept. Clinical Genetics, University of Lund, Lund, 221 85, Sweden

    Ulf Kristoffersson

  2. Zentrum Kinderheilkunde, Inst. Humangenetik, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, Hannover, 30625, Germany

    Jörg Schmidtke

  3. Center f. Human Genetics, Lab. For. Gen. & Mol. Arch., University of Leuven, Kapucijenvoer 33, Leuven, 3000, Belgium

    J. J. Cassiman

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Dequeker, E. (2010). Quality Management Systems and Accreditation. In: Kristoffersson, U., Schmidtke, J., Cassiman, J. (eds) Quality Issues in Clinical Genetic Services. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3919-4_28

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