Resources

Why Become an Accredited Facility?

• The IQMH Edge - Benefits of ISO 15189 Plus
• Case Study: William Osler Health System

Position Statements

• Accreditation Operating Principles
• Accreditation Service Provision
• Categorization Non-conformances
• Extension of Certificate Expiration Date
• Inter-laboratory Comparison Surveillance in Accreditation
• IQMH Participation in ILAC and APLAC
• ISO 15189 Plus™ Accreditation Cycle
• Traceability Accreditation Requirements
• Transfers of Accreditation to IQMH
• Use of Symbol and Claims of Accreditation Status

Documents de principe

• Catégorisation des non-conformités
• Exigences relatives à l'accréditation concernant la traçabilité
• Surveillance des comparaisons interlaboratoires par l’Accréditation 
• Utilisation de symbole et revendication de statut d’accréditation
  

Guides

English

• Participant Steps to Accreditation
• Guidance for Creating a Diagnostic Service Quality Manual
• Guidance on Measurement Uncertainty for Medical Laboratories

French

• Conseils concernant les manuels qualité du laboratoire
• Conseils pour la création d’un manuel qualité pour service de diagnostic
• Lignes directrices concernant l'incertitude de mesure pour les laboratoires médicaux
• Renseignements sur les programmes d’accréditation

Forms

Proficiency Testing

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

• How are laboratories in Ontario reporting lithium for therapeutic drug monitoring
• IQMH Laboratory Practices for Manual Blood Film Review
• Challenges faced by laboratories in differentiating between non-neoplastic, reactive lymphocytes and abnormal lymphocytes, neoplastic in a blood smear
• Introducing immature granulocytes (IG) in a proficiency testing program as a new parameter on automated hematology analyzers
• 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