Quality assurance of chemical measurements
Book
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OSTI ID:7014354
The author's 57 years of experience at the National Bureau of Standards include the development and coordination of quality assurance programs. The author has also presented a short course on the subject more than 70 times. Taylor provides a readable treatment of the philosophy of quality assurance and describes the elements and tools needed to assess the reliability of analytical measurements. The 26 chapters and five appendices offer a wealth of information for those considering improvement and development of quality assurance and quality control programs. The first seven chapters provide an overview of the concepts and goals of quality assurance and analytical measurements and introduce some basic statistical techniques and parameters. Chapters 8-10 discuss three of the central components of the analytical measurement process: sampling, calibration, and measurement. Two strongly related topics, blank correction and reference materials, are covered in Chapters 13 and 17. The principles of quality assurance and quality control are given in Chapters 11 and 12; the related topic of quality assessment is treated in Chapter 15. The other chapters are devoted to the various tools and components of quality assurance and quality control, such as control charts, quality audits, validation, and laboratory evaluation. Five appendices follow, and they include a useful glossary and an excellent annotated bibliography. The book should prove useful to analytical chemists involved in developing or monitoring analytical measurement systems. Laboratory managers and supervisors will find the material indispensable for developing, implementing, and improving quality assurance programs.
- OSTI ID:
- 7014354
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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