LetterTJH-2018-0273

Submitted: 3 August 2018

Accepted: 6 September 2018

Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip1, Viroj Wiwanitkit2

1. 26 Medical Center, Bangkok Thailand
2.Honroary professor, dr DY Patil University, Pune, India

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Correspondence
Rujittika Mungmunpuntipantip

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26 Medical Center, Bangkok Thailand
Email: rujittika@gmail.com

Hematology laboratory survey

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Dear Editor, we read the publication on “Results of the Hematology Laboratory Survey:
What has Changed in Eight Years?” with a great interest. Kozanoğlu et al. noted that
“Hematology laboratories have not been defined in the Turkish Medical Laboratories
Regulation (2010, 2013), which regulates procedures and principles regarding the planning,
licensing, opening, regulating, classifying, monitoring, controlling, and terminating of
activities of medical laboratories [1].” We would like to share ideas from our country in
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Indochina. In our country, there is no isolated hematology laboratory. All clinical hematology
investigation was performed by standard clinical laboratory medicine center [2]. The routine
laboratory survey and quality surveillance for accreditation is the basic requirement. This
might be a good way for quality control of the laboratory process. Indeed, there is a need for
clinical pathologist or clinical hematologist for management of the hematology laboratory.
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This requirement is needed for assurance of the quality of the laboratory diagnosis. The
concept of isolated hematology and combination with other clinical laboratories in a single
laboratory medicine unit is an interesting topic for further discussion on advantage and
disadvantage.
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Conflict of interest

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References
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