CHAPTER IV: QUALITY CONTROL IN CLINICAL CHEMISTRY Flashcards
a degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements
QUALITY
What is the ISO for Quality?
(ISO 9001:2008)
part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements
QUALITY CONTROL
System of assuring the quality of total laboratory performance
QUALITY CONTROL
Quality control is done __________.
Periodically
Involves the periodic systematic surveillance of__________________
people, tools, methods and reagents
part of quality management focused on providing confidence that the
quality requirements will be fulfilled
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Set of activities or plan that aims to maintain the highest degree of excellence for the diagnosis & treatment of disease and maintenance of health
QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM
establishes norms that must be met
Quality Control Surveillance System (QCCS)
established to offer education of why errors occur; provide a program to
remedy defects
Q.C. Corrective System
established to prove that corrective measures have produced favorable results.
Objective Q.C. Parameters
A substance of known composition
STANDARD
Its value is established by an analytical procedure different from that used in the clinical laboratory
STANDARD
A substance which resembles the unknown specimen (patient’s sample)
CONTROL MATERIAL
Analyzed daily together with the unknown
control material