CHAPTER IV: QUALITY CONTROL IN CLINICAL CHEMISTRY

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a degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements

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QUALITY

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What is the ISO for Quality?

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(ISO 9001:2008)

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part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements

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QUALITY CONTROL

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System of assuring the quality of total laboratory performance

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QUALITY CONTROL

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Quality control is done __________.

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Periodically

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Involves the periodic systematic surveillance of__________________

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people, tools, methods and reagents

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part of quality management focused on providing confidence that the quality requirements will be fulfilled

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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 the diagnosis & treatment of disease and maintenance of health

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QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM

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establishes norms that must be met

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Quality Control Surveillance System (QCCS)

#10

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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

#11

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established to prove that corrective measures have produced favorable results.

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Objective Q.C. Parameters

#12

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A substance of known composition

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STANDARD

#13

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

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STANDARD

#14

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A substance which resembles the unknown specimen (patient’s sample)

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CONTROL MATERIAL

#15

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Analyzed daily together with the unknown

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control material

#16

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

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CONTROL MATERIAL

#17

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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

#18

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Excess non-hemolyzed sera _______gross lipemia are collected _____ in the laboratory and pooled for _______ in the refrigerator

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without daily storage

#19

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How many liters of pooled sera is collected for the MT to centrifuge it?

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1-2 Liters

#20

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When 1 – 2 liters are collected, centrifuge to remove _____________

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gross contamination

#21

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Under pooled sera, after centrifuging it, ___________ into aliquots of __ each

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filter and divide 5 mL

#22

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Under pooled sera, after centrifuging, filtering and aliquoting. What is the next step?

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Stopper and store at -20°C

#23

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

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accuracy

#24

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

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Precision