Quality Control in Serology

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Dr.T.V.Rao MD
QUALITY CONTROL IN SEROLOGY
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WHAT IS QUALITY CONTROL?
Process or system for monitoring the quality of laboratory testing, and the accuracy and precision of results
Routinely collect and analyze data from every test run or procedure
 Allows for immediate corrective action
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DEFINITIONS
Quality Control
 
- QC refers to the measures that must be included during each assay run to verify that the test is working  properly.
Quality Assurance
- QA is defined as the overall program that ensures that the final results reported by the laboratory are correct.
 “The
 aim of quality control is simply to ensure that the results generated by the test are correct. However, quality assurance is concerned with much more: that the right test is carried out on the right specimen, and that the right result and right interpretation is delivered to the right person at the right
time”
 
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DEFINITIONS
Quality Assessment
 
- quality assessment (also known as proficiency testing) is a means to determine the quality of the results generated by the laboratory. Quality assessment is a challenge to the effectiveness of the QA and QC programs.
Quality Assessment may be external or internal, examples of external programs
 
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