CBAHI - Clinical Laboratories & Blood Banks (QMS)

Issued by the Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions, the national accreditation authority of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the CBAHI Clinical Laboratories and Blood Banks standards, 2016 Edition, govern diagnostic laboratory and transfusion services inside licensed healthcare facilities. The architecture mirrors the quality system essentials laboratory assessment rests on: organisation and management, customer focus and complaints, facilities and safety, personnel and competency, purchasing and inventory control, equipment, process management and workflow, document and record control, information management through the LIS, nonconforming events and CAPA, internal audit, and continual improvement. Each essential is answered in turn, and the internal audit checklist works to the same headings.

The pre-analytical phase is covered by specimen collection guidance and documented specimen rejection; the analytical phase by internal quality control logging, external quality assessment and equipment calibration and planned maintenance; the post-analytical phase by result reporting and critical value communication. Transfusion medicine brings its own demands, from donor selection and screening through component preparation and compatibility testing to haemovigilance, alongside laboratory biosafety and waste handling.