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QUALITY CONTROL IN SEROLOGY
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WHAT IS QUALITY CONTROL?
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Process or system for monitoring the quality of laboratory testing, and the accuracy and precision of results
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Routinely collect and analyze data from every test run or procedure
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Allows for immediate corrective action
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DEFINITIONS
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Quality Control
- QC refers to the measures that must be included during each assay run to verify that the test is working properly.
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Quality Assurance
- QA is defined as the overall program that ensures that the final results reported by the laboratory are correct.
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“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
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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.
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Quality Assessment may be external or internal, examples of external programs
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