ASVCP guidelines : principles of quality assurance and standards for veterinary clinical pathology (version 3.0) : developed by the American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology's (ASVCP) Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards (QALS) Committee

Abstract

This guideline is a revision of the previous (finalized 2009) document of the same name, American Society for Veterinary Clinical Pathology's Principles of Quality Assurance and Standards for Veterinary Clinical Pathology, developed by the Quality Assurance and Laboratory Standards (QALS) committee (and colloquially known as the “general guideline”), archived on the ASVCP website (www.asvcp.org/page/QALS_Guidelines), on a newly established Wiley freeware page (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1939165x/homepage/Qals) as published in Veterinary Clinical Pathology in three sectional special reports. This guideline's intended audiences are professional veterinary laboratorians (pathologists, technologists/technicians, research scientists, and pathology residents), operators/users of in‐clinic instruments/in‐clinic laboratories, and more broadly, all producers and consumers of clinical veterinary laboratory data, namely the veterinarians/training veterinarians who have the responsibility of ordering appropriate tests and properly interpreting results that inform further diagnostic and treatment decisions.