A NOTE ON THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN SPECIMEN COLLECTION FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Abstract

Nuclear medicine physicians use radioactive pharmaceuticals to diagnose, and sometimes treat, a range of diseases. Nuclear medicine technologists may perform the following tasks: perform laboratory procedures including blood and specimen collection, quality control testing, ensure the safe handling, storage, disposal of radioactive materials, prepare and administer radiopharmaceuticals as tracers to demonstrate the function of organs in the body. Presently, quality control is the primary important task in the management of all laboratories. Due to the good governance concepts, accountability of the whole laboratory processes is the main focus of current concern in laboratory medicine. Due to the laboratory quality cycle, reliability cannot be achieved in a clinical laboratory through the control of accuracy in the analytical phase of testing process alone, but also the concern in the preanaiytical phase including the specimen collection procedure, request form control, control of sample acceptance and sample holding, must be carefully practised with quality through the whole laboratory cycle.