The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices

Barbara Barbé; Kristien Verdonck; Deby Mukendi; Veerle Lejon; Jean-Roger Lilo Kalo; Emilie Alirol; Philippe Gillet; Ninon Horié; Raffaella Ravinetto; Emmanuel Bottieau; Cedric Yansouni; Andrea S Winkler; Harry van Loen; Marleen Boelaert; Pascal Lutumba; Jan Jacobs

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005053

The Art of Writing and Implementing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Laboratories in Low-Resource Settings: Review of Guidelines and Best Practices

PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2016 Nov 3;10(11):e0005053. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005053. eCollection 2016 Nov.

Authors

Barbara Barbé¹, Kristien Verdonck¹, Deby Mukendi², Veerle Lejon^{1

3}, Jean-Roger Lilo Kalo², Emilie Alirol⁴, Philippe Gillet¹, Ninon Horié⁴, Raffaella Ravinetto^{1

5}, Emmanuel Bottieau¹, Cedric Yansouni⁶, Andrea S Winkler^{7

8}, Harry van Loen¹, Marleen Boelaert¹, Pascal Lutumba^{2

9}, Jan Jacobs^{1

10}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
² Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
³ Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
⁴ Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ Department of Pharmaceutical and Pharmacological Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁶ JD MacLean Centre for Tropical Diseases, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Canada.
⁷ Department of Neurology, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany.
⁸ Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
⁹ Université de Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Facility Regulation and Control
Guidelines as Topic / standards*
Health Policy
Humans
Laboratories / economics*
Laboratories / standards*
Neglected Diseases
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Socioeconomic Factors

Grants and funding

This work is part of the NIDIAG European research network (Collaborative Project) supported by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement no 260260. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.