JACIE and Quality Management in HSCT: Implications for Nursing

Laboratory medicine, along with the airline industry, has a long history of utilising quality management systems. It took until 1999 for The Joint Accreditation Committee of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), known as JACIE, to be established as an accreditation system in the field of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). The aim was to create a standardised system of accreditation to be officially recognised across Europe and was based on the accreditation standards established by the US-based Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT).