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A DEGREE TO WHICH A SET OF INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS FULFILLS REQUIREMENTS (ISO 9001:2008)

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QUALITY

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PART OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOCUSED ON FULFILLING QUALITY REQUIREMENTS (ISO 9000:2000)

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QUALITY CONTROL

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WHAT IS THE OTHER NAME OF QUALITY CONTROL

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STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL

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SYSTEM OF ASSURING THE QUALITY OF TOTAL LABORATORY PERFORMANCE

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QUALITY CONTROL

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INVOLVES SYTEMATIC MONITORING OF ANALYTIC PROCESS IN ORDER TO DETECT ANALYTIC ERRORS THAT OCCUR DURING ANALYSIS

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QUALITY CONTROL

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PART OF QUALITY MANAGEMENT FOCUSED ON PROVIDING CONFIDENCE THAT THE QUALITY REQUIREMENTS WILL BE FULFILLED (ISO 9000:2000)

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QUALITY ASSURANCE

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MONITORING OF SPECIMEN AQISISIO, TURN AROUND TIME, OR PROFICIENCY TESTING OF MATERALS

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QUALITY ASSURANCE

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SET OF ACTIVITIES OR PLAN THAT AIMS TO MAINTAIN THE HIGHEST DEGREE OF EXCELLENCE FOR TH DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMEN OF DISEASE AND MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH

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QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM

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Specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets costumer and applicable situations

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ISO 9001 : 2008

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Quality management in medical Laboratories (guidelines

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ISO15189

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SYSTEM CONCEPTS of QUALITY CONTROL

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  1. QCCS- Quality Control Surveillance System
  2. Q.C. Corrective System
  3. Objective Q.C. Parameters
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establishes norms that must be met

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QCCS

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Established to offer education of why errors occur; provide a program to remedy defects

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Q.C. Corrective System

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Established to prove that corrective measures have produced favorable results

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Objective Q.C. Parameters

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Objectives of Q.C.

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  • check the quality of machines
  • check the quality of reagents
  • check technical (operational) errors
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Initially applied and principle statistically analyzing QC to the clinical lab in the1950s

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Control Limits ( Control Values)

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ideal control limit

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+/- 2SD

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A substace of known concentration

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Standard

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More applicable to identifying when an error has occured

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Quality control

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more applicable to preventng an error from occuring

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Quality Assurance Program

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CONTROL of PRE-ANALYTICAL VARIABLES
FACTORS:

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  1. Patient identification
  2. Proper preparation of patient
  3. Specimen collection, separation & processing
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CONTROL OF ANALYTICAL VARIABLES
MAIN FACTORS:

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  1. Choice of analytical methodology
  2. Calibration procedures
  3. Proper documentation of analytical variables
  4. Proper labeling & use of reagents
  5. Preventive maintenance of analytical instruments
  6. Periodic calibration of pipetting devices
  7. Periodic checking of °T of refrigerator & heating units
  8. Periodic checking of procedure manuals
  9. Monitoring of technical competence
  10. Inventory of control materials
  11. Control assurance that safety measures are operational
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CONTROL of POST-ANALYTICAL VARIABLES
FACTORS:

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  1. Verification of calculations of the final results
  2. Check test results for possible transcription errors
  3. Results should be easy to read & interpret
  4. Timeliness of reporting values to patient chart
  5. Procedures for informing physicians about results that require immediate attention
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FACTORS Involved in QUALITY CONTROL

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  • standard
  • control material
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Substance of known composistion

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Standard

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Its valu is established by an analytical procedure different from that used in the clinical laboratory

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Standard

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Substance which resembles the unknown specimen (patient’s sample)

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Control material

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analyzed daily together with the unknown

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Control material

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the values obtained from the assays are used for that computation of the mean and the SD

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Control material

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types of control material

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A. Commercial control sera
B. Pooled sera

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Excess non-hemolyzed sera without gross lipemia are collected daily in the laboratory and
pooled for storage in the refrigerator

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Pooled sera

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  • When 1 – 2 liters are collected, centrifuge to remove gross contamination
  • Filter and divide into aliquots of 5 mL each
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Pooled sera

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Stopper and store at -20°C
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Thaw as needed and mix well before use

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Pooled sera

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extent to w/c the measurement approximates the true value of the quantity being
measured

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Accuracy

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a.k.a reproducibility; degree to w/c repeated results agree to each other

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Precision

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ability of a method to detect a particular substance w/o the interference of some
other substances present in the sample

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Specificity

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ability of a method to detect even the smallest amount of that particular substance
tested for

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Sensitivity

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ability of a method to maintain its accuracy & precision over an extended period of
time

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Reliability

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degree to w/c the method is easily repeated

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Practicability

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➢ A statement of the extent of random variation in any series of measurement
➢ A measure of the distribution of values around the mean

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Standard Deviation

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  • Square of the standard deviation
  • Used to detect significant differences between groups of data
  • Determine contributions of various factors to the total variation
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Variance

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  • Percentile expression of the mean
  • Measure of the relative magnitude of variability
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Coefficient of variation

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QUALITY CONTROL Associated Activities

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  1. Assay of control samples
  2. Instrument maintenance
  3. Statistical Data Analysis
  4. Proficiency testing survey
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Aspects which the laboratory should avoid or minimize

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  1. Analytical Balance
  2. Random Analytical Variability
  3. Errors
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Types of Analytical Bias

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a) Proportional bias
b) Constant bias
c) Combined bias

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❖ Reported values do not fall along the line of slope when graphed
❖ Reported lab results do not correspond to the correct value

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Analytical Balance

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  • Refers to laboratory analyses that are subject to imprecision
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Random Analytical Variability

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Types of random analytical variability

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A. Proportional variability
B. Constant variability

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Problem on Accuracy (Bias)

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Systematic Error

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Problem on Precision (CV)

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Random Error

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can be systematic or personnel-related

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Errors

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Types of error

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A. Random Errors
B. Systematic Errors

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 Sources cannot be completely controlled or identified
 Increase the extent of variability of results

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Random Errors

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Causes of random errors

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  1. Pipets & volumetric glassware w/ manufacturing variation; electronic & optical variations in
    instruments (e.g. spectrophotometers)
  2. Variations in the cuvet
  3. Variations in timing & °T control
  4. Variations in light, evaporation & °T on serum sample
  5. Interferences from other substances in the sample
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Displace the mean value on one direction (may be up or down), but do NOT affect the overall
variability as shown by the SD value

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Systematic Errors

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Causes of systematic errors

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  1. Aging phenomena – decomposition of reagents during storage
  2. Personal bias of the analyst
  3. Laboratory bias
  4. Inter- & intra-individual bias
  5. Experimental errors or changes in the methods
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Types of systematic errors

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  1. Trend
  2. Shift
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CAUSES of UPWARD TREND:

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o Expired lamps/photocells
o Denatured standard
o Contamination of reagents

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CAUSES of DOWNWARD TREND

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o Standards that are too concentrated
o Contamination of reagent

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Series of values on the control chart that continue to increase or decrease for at least a
period of six (6) consecutive days

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Trend

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Values that distribute themselves on one side of the mean for at least six (6)
consecutive days

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Shift

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CAUSES of DOWNWARD SHIFT

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o Increased concentration of standard & reagents
o Contaminated reagents
o Inaccurate timer
o Under-heating in analysis
o Contaminated glassware

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CAUSES of UPWARD SHIFT

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o Partial electrical failure in instrument
o New standard is over-diluted
o Denatured standard that has stabilized
o Improperly prepared reagent
o Inaccurate timer
o Deteriorated indicator
o Dirty glassware
o Overheating in °T-sensitive analysis

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Q.C. procedures performed on a daily basis within individual laboratories

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INTRALABORATORY / INTERNAL

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INTRALABORATORY / INTERNAL Monitoring is carried out using

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o Levey – Jennings Chart
o Westgard Multi-rule Chart
o CUSUM Technique (cumulative sum)

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Performed on a less frequent basis (e.g. 3x a year) to compare performance b/w or among
laboratories

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INTERLABORATORY / EXTERNAL

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graphical representations that display the control observation as a
function or time

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quality control charts

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 Control results are plotted on the Y-axis (ordinate) vs time on the X-axis (abscissa)

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LEVEY – JENNINGS CHART

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 All control values are w/in ± 2SD
 One outlier in 20 determinations

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IN-CONTROL

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 Presence of two or more outliers
 Presence of a Trend
 Presence of a Shift

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OUT-OF-CONTROL

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a control value that goes beyond ±2SD

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Outlier

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Commercial control sera is reconsituted using

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5mL of distilled H2O

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dehydrated to powder

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Lyophilized

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Pathologic control and color red packaging

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Quantipath

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Green

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Quantiform

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3 types of studies determined by:

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A. Recovery study
B. Interference study
C. Sample comparison

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determines how much of the analytes can be identified in the sample

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Recovery study

78
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specific compounds affect the lab test

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interference study

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used to assess the presence of error in an actual patient sample

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Sample comparison study

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what is caused by systematic error

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Inaccuracy

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what is caused by random error

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imprecision

82
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measure of central tendency associated with symmetrical or normal distribution

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arithmetic mean

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Characteristics of a human sample

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  1. resembles human sample
  2. inexpensive and stable for long periods
  3. no communicable disease
  4. no matrix effects/ known matrix effects
  5. with known analyte concentration
  6. convenient packaging for easy dispersion and storage
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reported values are higher/ lower than the expected values

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proportional bias

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reported values are higher/ lower than expected but constant concentration

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constant bias

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commonly caused by a bias in volumetric dispensing of the specimen aliquot

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proportonal variability

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commonly observed in analytical procedures that are influenced by the turbidity of the specimen

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constant variability

88
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to prove there is proportional bias

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recovery experiment

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causes of outlier

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  • contamination of a single specimen
  • faulty pipette
  • incorrect dilution of test
  • incorrect control sera
90
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if value is only one but exceeded +/- 2SD

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1,2 s

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  • method used to validate a particular measurement process
  • diff. labs analyze the same sample several times in a year
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proficiency testing survey

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specimens that have known concentration of an analyte for the test of interest

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proficiency sample

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labs in a geographic region use the lots of QC specimen each day for their internal QC programs

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Regional QC programs

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steps in implementing quantitative QC

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  • obtain control material
  • run each control 20 times over 30 days
  • calculate mean +/- 1,2,3 SD
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preferred rather than a pooled sera

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Bovine QM

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