Internal Audit Checklist/Scoring Tool

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Context 1

... the comprehensive tool has 12 sections based on the 12 known laboratory quality system essentials (ISO, 2015); the internal audit tool, designed from 6 of these 12 sections (Assessment, Organization, Personnel, Equipment, Document and record, Facilities and Safety) was routinely used to conduct internal quality audit for the selected health facilities' laboratories by FHI360 laboratory technical officers, facility heads of laboratory departments and laboratory focal persons from government agencies/departments vested with oversight responsibilities. This tool allowed for simplicity and easy self-administration on a regular basis by these facilities (Figure 1). The quality system essentials -with various percentage weighting -that were considered are: 1) Documents and records (12%); 2) Organization and personnel (11%); 3) Internal and external quality assessment (30%); 4) Inventory control system (13%); 5) Equipment (13%); and 7) Facility and safety (21%). ...

Context 2

... facilities were encouraged and supported to implement continuous quality improvement (CQI) programs to address areas of poor performance in each audit cycle. The CQI programs implemented are variable and dependent on the specific area of poor performance recorded during quarterly audit in each hospital laboratory (see Figure 1), with specific activities targeted at shoring up performance towards meeting expected standards in each QSE domain (see supplementary file). • Is there evidence of training and retraining of staff? ...