Resources

Three places to go deeper than this lesson. All three were checked and loading (HTTP 200) at the time this page was written.

• AABB, “Accreditation Process” — the page this lesson quotes directly: the two-phase self-assessment/on-site structure, APEX, the “PPPs are followed as written” expectation, the two-year reassessment cycle, and the six-month minimum operating history for a first accreditation. Read it yourself before citing any of its wording in a real Lakeshore document.

• AABB, “Become Accredited” — AABB’s own landing page for the accreditation program generally, one level up from the process page above. Useful for the broader context of what accreditation covers and why a facility pursues it in the first place.

• AABB, Updated Quality Systems Essentials — AABB’s own current page on the ten Quality System Essentials (QSEs), including QSE 3 (Equipment) and QSE 8 (Assessments: Internal and External), the two QSE themes this lesson names without quoting any Standards text. Use it to see the theme and scope of each QSE in AABB’s own words; don’t cite a standard number from it.