Health care professionals, technicians, and assistants staffing LABORATORIES in research or health care facilities.

Professionals, technicians, and assistants staffing LABORATORIES.

Facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures.

The specialty related to the performance of techniques in clinical pathology such as those in hematology, microbiology, and other general clinical laboratory applications.

Hospital facilities equipped to carry out investigative procedures.

Accidentally acquired infection in laboratory workers.

Techniques used to carry out clinical investigative procedures in the diagnosis and therapy of disease.

Certification as complying with a standard set by non-governmental organizations, applied for by institutions, programs, and facilities on a voluntary basis.

A specialty concerned with the nature and cause of disease as expressed by changes in cellular or tissue structure and function caused by the disease process.

A system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in a product or process by careful planning, use of proper equipment, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. (Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)

Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.

Persons including soldiers involved with the armed forces.