Quality assurance

Abstract

Quality assurance (QA) describes the effort by a laboratory organization to produce trustworthy results. Every laboratory, no matter how small, must maintain a continuing effort to confirm instrument calibration, measurement reproducibility, and applicability of analytical methods. These efforts must be documented so that the results achieved by the laboratory can be used confidently in a decisionmaking program. Various decision-making programs are supported by radioanalytical chemistry. A partial list of these programs includes © 2007 Springer.