Resources

• Benefits of ISO 15189 Plus

Position Statements (Documents de principe)

• Impartiality and Operating Principles
• Accreditation Service Provision
• Categorization Non-conformances (Catégorisation des non-conformités)
• Extension of Certificate Expiration Date
• Inter-laboratory Comparison Surveillance in Accreditation (Surveillance des comparaisons interlaboratoires par l’Accréditation)
• IQMH Participation in ILAC and APAC
• ISO 15189 Plus™ Accreditation Cycle
• Traceability Accreditation Requirements (Exigences relatives à l'accréditation concernant la traçabilité)
• Transfers of Accreditation to IQMH
• Use of Symbol and Claims of Accreditation Status (Utilisation de symbole et revendication de statut d’accréditation)
     

Guides

• Participant Steps to Accreditation
• Guidance for Creating a Diagnostic Service Quality Manual (Conseils pour la création d’un manuel qualité pour service de diagnostic)
• Guidance on Measurement Uncertainty for Medical Laboratories (Lignes directrices concernant l'incertitude de mesure pour les laboratoires médicaux)

Forms

• Accreditation Complaint Form (Formulaire de plainte d'accréditation)

References

• Epidemiology of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci reported by Laboratories to Quality Management Program — Laboratory Services in Ontario from 2000 to 2012
• Recommendations from the Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Laboratory Best Practices Working Group

Posters

• Accuracy and Precision of Cholesterol, Triglycerides and HDL-Cholesterol Methods: A Retrospective Assessment of Quality
• Analytical Performance of Creatinine Methods: A Proficiency Testing Provider Perspective
• Bone Marrow Sample Preparation and Processing: An IQMH Survey on Laboratory Practices
• Challenges faced by laboratories in differentiating between non-neoplastic, reactive lymphocytes and abnormal lymphocytes, neoplastic in a blood smear
• Clinical chemistry sample interferences reporting patterns in Ontario laboratories
• Discordant Finding and Error Types Observed in Urine Drug Screens: An External Quality Assessment Program Perspective
• How are laboratories in Ontario reporting lithium for therapeutic drug monitoring
• How modern is your lab? (oral presentation)
• How modern is your lab?
• Introducing immature granulocytes (IG) in a proficiency testing program as a new parameter on automated hematology analyzers
• IQMH Laboratory Practices for Manual Blood Film Review
• Patterns-of-Practice survey demonstrates the need for national guidelines regarding the implementation of microbiology point-of-care tests across Canada (oral presentation)
• Patterns-of-Practice survey demonstrates the need for national guidelines regarding the implementation of microbiology point-of-care tests across Canada
• Precision performance and error types observed in the point-of-care glucose testing: an external quality assessment program perspective
• Setting Appropriate Precision Limits in Routine Hematology
• Survey of quality assurance practices and clinical locations for POC glucose meter testing in Canada hospitals
• Use of Biological Variation for Establishing and Harmonizing Performance Limits for Clinical Chemistry Proficiency Testing Programs
• Use of the reference change value concept in comparison of two results from blind identical proficiency testing samples

Reports

Antimicrobial Resistance in Common Hospital Pathogens in Ontario

2013
2012
2011
2010