Organisation & Management, Part I

Lab services in tuberculosis control
Organisation & Management,
Part I

Preface
Introduction
- Microscopy
- Culture
- Drug susceptibility testing
- Species identification
Organisation of laboratory services
- Integrated versus specialised services
- Levels of laboratory services
- Functions and responsibilities of peripheral, intermediate and central laboratories
Training, supervision and motivation of laboratory staff
- Training
- Supervision
- Motivation
Laboratory administration and record keeping
- Standard operating procedures
- Laboratory request forms
- Laboratory registers
- Laboratory report forms
- Laboratory accident book
Laboratory hygiene and safety
- Procedural hazards
- Laboratory hygiene
- Disinfectants
- Essential safety equipment and supplies
- Biological safety cabinets
- Protective clothing
- Coping with a laboratory accident
Waste disposal
- Discarding contaminated laboratory supplies
- Autoclaving
- Boiling and burning
Quality control, quality improvement and proficiency testing
- Quality control
- Quality improvement
- Proficiency testing
Laboratory worker health monitoring
- Disease monitoring programme for laboratory workers
- Pre-employment health profiles and baseline screening
- Quarterly monitoring of health status
- Post-exposure monitoring
Selected references

ANNEXES and FIGURES
available from Karin Weyer, E-mail: karin.weyer@mrc.ac.za, Tel: +27 12 3398551

CONTACTS:

Dr Martie van der Walt
E-mail: vdwalt@mrc.ac.za
Dr Roxanna Rustomjee
E-mail: roxanna.rustomjee@
mrc.ac.za
Prof Valerie Mizrahi
E-mail: mizrahiv@
pathology.wits.ac.za
Prof. Paul van Helden
E-mail: pvh@sun.ac.za

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11-Jul-2011

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