Quality Control and Quality Assurance Flashcards
Coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to quality.
Quality Management
Encompasses all activities performed by laboratory personnel to ensure the reliability of test results.
Quality Assurance
What ISO certification is an international standard that specifies requirements for a quality management
system (QMS)?
ISO 9001
In the medical laboratory, it is a statistical process used to monitor and evaluate the analytical process that produces patient results.
Quality Control
What quality assurance system includes day-to-day activities that are undertaken in order to control factors or variables that may affect the test results?
Internal QAS
What quality assurance system focuses on checking performance among clinical laboratories and is facilitated by designated external agencies?
External QAS
A graph where quality control results are routinely plotted.
Levi Jenning’s Chart
A method used to validate a particular measurement process [used in performance monitoring].
Proficiency testing
True or False.
External QAS is done every day.
False.
External QAS is done every year.
Identify if IQAS or EQAS.
An unknown sample with known test results is regularly sent to a clinical laboratory for testing.
External QAS
Identify the designated NRL-EQAS.
Hematology and Coagulation
National Kidney and Transplant Institute (NKTI)
Identify the designated NRL-EQAS.
Microbiology and Parasitology
Research Institute for Tropical Medicine (RITM)
Identify the designated NRL-EQAS.
Clinical Chemistry
Lung Center of the Philippines
Identify the designated NRL-EQAS.
Drug of abuse
East Avenue Medical Center (EAMC)
Identify the designated NRL-EQAS.
SACCL, Infectious Immunology, HBsAg, HIV, HCV
San Lazaro Hospital
