The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices

Barbara Barbé * E-mail: bbarbe@itg.be Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Kristien Verdonck Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Deby Mukendi Affiliation: Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Veerle...

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Published in:PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2016-11, Vol.10 (11), p.e0005053-e0005053
Main Authors: Barbé, Barbara, Verdonck, Kristien, Mukendi, Deby, Lejon, Veerle, Lilo Kalo, Jean-Roger, Alirol, Emilie, Gillet, Philippe, Horié, Ninon, Ravinetto, Raffaella, Bottieau, Emmanuel, Yansouni, Cedric, Winkler, Andrea S, van Loen, Harry, Boelaert, Marleen, Lutumba, Pascal, Jacobs, Jan
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Language:English
Subjects:
Biology and Life Sciences
Care and treatment
Colleges & universities
Communicable diseases
Data collection
Facility Regulation and Control
Guidelines as Topic - standards
Health Policy
Hospitals
Humans
Infectious diseases
Laboratories
Laboratories - economics
Laboratories - standards
Malaria
Medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Neglected Diseases
Neurological disorders
Process controls
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Quality control
Quality standards
Research and Analysis Methods
Social Sciences
Socioeconomic Factors
Symposium
Tropical diseases
Writing
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Summary:Barbara Barbé * E-mail: bbarbe@itg.be Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Kristien Verdonck Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Deby Mukendi Affiliation: Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Veerle Lejon Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France Jean-Roger Lilo Kalo Affiliation: Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Emilie Alirol Affiliation: Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland Philippe Gillet Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Ninon Horié Affiliation: Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland Raffaella Ravinetto Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Emmanuel Bottieau Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Cedric Yansouni Affiliation: JD MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada Andrea S. Winkler Affiliations Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany, Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway Harry van Loen Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Marleen Boelaert Affiliation: Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium Pascal Lutumba Affiliations Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo Jan Jacobs Affiliations Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumCitation: Barbé B, Verdonck K, Mukendi D, Lejon V, Lilo Kalo J-R, Alirol E, et al. SOPs harmonize laboratory practices, reduce user errors, and can be used as training tools. [...]they help ensure compliance to the study protocol, regulations, and international standards.
ISSN:1935-2735
1935-2727
1935-2735
DOI:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005053