• Knowledge Sharing Session 6 - QUALITY CONTROL IN ANALYTICAL LABORATORY

    • Introduction

      The Global quality of a laboratory is defined as the accuracy, reliability, and timeliness of the analytical results and all aspects of analytical operations should be controlled. 

      ISO 15189 includes all the requirements that medical laboratories in charge of human biological sample analysis must comply to guarantee that: 

      • They have a quality management system 

      • They are technically competent 

      • They have the capacity to produce technically valid results 

      According to ISO, QMS comprises coordinated activities to direct and control an organization with regard to quality. QMS composed of 12 Quality System Essentials and to study detail of them, we would like to refer our Training session 1 ; Quality Management System

      And to evaluate the good management of the quality; each laboratory has to define quality indicators. These indicators are specific to each entity and necessary to guaranty a good quality service.

      Here are some articles regarding with Quality Indicators in Medical Laboratories


      Quality Assurance and Quality Control are parts of the Quality Management System. Quality Assurance focus on path of workflow Pre-analytic, Analytic and Post-analytic activities while Quality Control monitor the process related to the Examination phase or Analytical phase to detect errors in testing processes. 

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      The following video differentiate "QMS, QA & QC in a Laboratory" by IVY Professional Development Channel



      In this knowledge sharing topic, we will only focus on Quality Control of analytical laboratories:       
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      Unit 1 - General information
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      Unit 2 - Parameters of Quality Control & Statistics
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      Unit 3 - Evaluation and verification of the correctness of Quality Control
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      Unit 4 - Quality Control materials