Quality Assurance in the Pathology Laboratory

Written to improve laboratory work, this volume also examines logistic and legal tools related to quality issues. Authored by researchers long involved with theoretical and practical laboratory activity, the book begins with selected aspects of quality assurance applied in laboratory medicine and toxicology. The second section explores quality aspects of emerging disciplines, including personalized therapy and virtopsy. The next chapters present regulatory and logistic instrumentation, and the final section considers the quality of professional education at the graduate and postgraduate level in pathology and laboratory medicine.