Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Medical laboratory professionals on use of Internal Quality Control (IQC) for Clinical Laboratory Tests among Selected Health Centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Background: Internal quality control (IQC) is designed to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory's internal analytical process prior to the release of patient results, in order to improve the quality of the results reported by the laboratory. As different studies indicated, 5% to 10% of laboratories are deficient in IQC practices, including IQC frequency, use of appropriate material, and statistical processing. Understanding what medical laboratory professionals know about IQC, their thinking about it and their actual practice of what they know will help to design solutions for improving quality of medical laboratory service. Objective: To assess Knowledge, altitude and practices (KAP) of medical laboratory professionals on the use of IQC for laboratory tests among selected Health centers