TY - JOUR
AU - Dorsey, Dennis B.
AB - TU B AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PATHOLOGY Vol. 40 No. 5, pp. 457-464 November, 1963 Copyright © 1963 by The Williams & Wilkins Co. Printed in U.S.A. DENNIS B. DORSEY, M.D. Department of Pathology, Lake View Memorial Hospital, Danville, Illinois The pathologist has an obligation to of improperly preserved specimens. Such provide his patients with tests that are as errors may occur outside the laboratory, but accurate, precise, and free of errors as their effects must be considered if we are to possible. Quality control helps him fulfill avoid clinical misinterpretations. this obligation, but in most laboratories In order to perform hematology tests quality control programs are chiefly con­ accurately all of the equipment and reagents cerned with clinical chemistry and blood used and each step in technic must be stand­ banking. Until recently many tests in ardized and controlled. Thus, the sample to hematology were performed by direct be tested for content of hemoglobin must observation of the blood specimen on a be taken from a well-mixed specimen, the counting chamber and it was assumed pipet used to measure the sample must be tha t the training, experience, and judgment calibrated accurately and used properly, the of the 
TI - Quality Control in Hematology
JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/40.5.457
DA - 1963-11-01
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SP - 457
EP - 464
VL - 40
IS - 5
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