Internal & External Quality Control in the Clinical Lab Course

Internal & External Quality Control in the Clinical Lab Course

Medical Testing Laboratory should design quality control to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory’s examination process. The laboratory management should make sure that the quality control material must be processed as per the quality management plan for each department, then do the daily, weekly and monthly evaluation with combine with the External Quality Control.

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Internal & External Quality Control in the Clinical Lab

 

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August 14, Friday

August 15, Saturday

Medical Testing Laboratory should design quality control to detect, reduce, and correct deficiencies in a laboratory’s examination process. The laboratory management should make sure that the quality control material must be processed as per the quality management plan for each department, then do the daily, weekly and monthly evaluation with combine with the External Quality Control.

External Quality Assessment is used to calculate accuracy. In the discipline of anatomic pathology, nonstatistical tools are used to assess the performance.  

Course Objectives

  • Understanding the rules in Internal Quality control
  • Interpretation of Internal Quality Control
  • Calculations and statistics of the mean SD CV and Interpretation of LJ chart
  • Interpretation of External Quality Control
  • Combine between Internal and External Quality control
  • Six Sigma in Medical laboratory (brief)
  • Uncertainty measurement calculation
  • Understand the different between the cv%, TaE and BV
  • Important of 3rd party control

Course Curriculum

Part one:

  • What is Quality Control
  • Quality Control Products
  • Acceptable limit
  • Comparison of QC Results to specific Statistical Limits

Exercise

Part Two:

  • Calculation and use of QC Statistics
  • Calculation of mean

Exercise

  • Calculation of SD

Exercise

Part Three:

  • Levey-Jennings Chart

Exercise: Create a Levey-Jennings Chart

  • Using a Levey-Jennings chart to evaluate Run Quality
  • Different Between Random error vs systematic error
  • Westgard Rules

Exercise: Evaluate LJ Charts as per Westgard rules

  • Additional QC statistics:
  • CV
  • Comparative evaluation
  • CVR Calculation
  • SDI Calculation

Exercise

Part Four: Choosing of QC products

  • Selecting of QC products
  • Shelf life
  • Clinically relevant Decision levels
  • Why is important to use independent/Third Party Internal Quality Control Steps to choose External Quality Control

Part Five: Advanced Topics in IQC

  • Quality Design and Control applications
  • Multi-stage Quality Control
  • Medical cutoffs as Tolerance limits
  • Test interpretation Guidelines as tolerance limits

Part Six: EQC Interpretations

  • The interpretation of the EQC Results
  • How to combine between IQC & EQC to evaluate the performance on Monthly bases

Part Seven: Measurement of Uncertainty 

Part Eight: Introduction to Sigma Calculations

Part Ten: From Quality Control to Total Quality Management

  • Pre-examinations Aspects
  • Examination Aspects
  • Post-Examination Aspects

Part Eleven: Conclusion by 1 complete Exercise

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