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 Laboratory Technicians, and students in MLS and MLT programs.
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: Patrick Tracy, MA, MT (ASCP), has been an MLT program director since 2012. His teaching experience has been in student labs, both face to face and online. His contribution to medical-laboratory education is most pronounced by his microbiology, blood bank and chemistry YouTube channel.
