Üsküdar University, which has adopted a holistic approach to humans and human health since its establishment, has obtained another accreditation certificate. The Medical Biochemistry Laboratory, inspected by the Turkish Accreditation Agency, has been awarded an accreditation certificate. The obtained test results and reports will now also have international recognition.
Accredited in all scopes…
The Medical Biochemistry Laboratory of Üsküdar University Health Practice and Research Center was accredited in all scopes specified by the TS EN ISO 15189: 2014 standard, following an audit conducted by the Turkish Accreditation Agency.
The Health Practice and Research Center, established within Üsküdar University, provides healthcare services while also pursuing its significant objective of conducting scientific research. The Medical Biochemistry Laboratory, inspected by the Turkish Accreditation Agency, has been awarded an accreditation certificate.
The TS EN ISO 15189 Standard is used to specify requirements for quality and competence unique to medical laboratories, for the development of their own quality management systems by medical laboratories, for the assessment of their competence, and for the confirmation and recognition of the competence of medical laboratories by accreditation bodies.
ISO 15189 accreditation for medical laboratories aims to ensure the accuracy of test results for patients and healthcare personnel.
Selma Özilhan, Manager of the Medical Biochemistry Laboratory, made the following evaluations regarding the importance of the accreditation work:
Possesses international acceptability…
“The benefits of the standard for Üsküdar University include international acceptability of test results and reports, instilling confidence in service recipients, increasing market share and competition, enhancing staff and operational awareness, ensuring more reliable and appropriate results, developing control mechanisms against non-conformities. It enhances the laboratory's reputation and prestige, improves result verification and traceability capabilities, ensures all required criteria and conditions in the laboratory are met, provides disciplined laboratory management, mandates precautionary measures to prevent corrective actions, and introduces metrology for measurement accuracy and uncertainty.”