Course Outline
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- Introduction to Quality Control
- Quality Control and a Quality Control Plan
- Which of the following may be included in a quality control plan?
- Quality Control Tools
- Quality Control Tools
- Intralaboratory (Internal) Quality Control
- Assayed and Unassayed Controls
- Internal Quality Control Program
- Determining the Frequency for QC Testing
- Additional Variables
- Instrument Maintenance
- Record Keeping
- External Quality Assessment
- Commercially available control materials for some laboratory instruments or method systems may be assayed or unassayed. Both will monitor the accuracy...
- If a laboratory is part of a system, it can compare its proficiency testing (PT) results with other laboratories in the system prior to submitting the...
- Delta Checks
- Statistical Analysis of Control Data
- Quality Control Charts
- References
Additional Information
Level of instruction: Basic
Intended Audience: Medical Laboratory Scientists, Medical Technologists, and Medical Laboratory Technicians, Clinical Laboratory Science students.
Course Information: This course provides important basic concepts in quality control that are useful to laboratory personnel who report patient results. Topics include: precision, accuracy, random and systematic errors, standard deviation, mean, and coefficient of variation, quality control tools and an overview of the Westgard multi-rule approach for evaluating QC results.
Author information: Brad Westover received his BS in Physics in 2006 from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently pursuing a Ph. D. at the University of California, San Diego.
Reviewer Information: Alexandru Casapu, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM, PBTCM has over 20 years of experience as a medical laboratory scientist, section supervisor, and laboratory manager. He is the former Director of Clinical Laboratory Technology Program at Georgia Piedmont Technical College. He is currently a Program Director at MediaLab, Inc. Alexandru holds BS degrees in Biology and Medical Technology from Clark Atlanta University and a MBA from the University of Georgia.