Clinical Diagnostics Directory

EQA for clinical laboratories Laboratory quality control: EQA for clinical laboratories Laboratory quality control enables clinical chemistry laboratories to ensure the quality of their results. Effective quality control provides the laboratory with the confidence to rely on single test analysis. It also provides clinicians with a high degree of confidence in the results they use to make a diagnosis. Results must be both accurate and precise: Accuracy is the agreement between the laboratory’s result and the ‘true value’. It is measured using an assayed quality control serum with an accurately assigned value. Poor accuracy often reflects a calibration problem.

quality control serum Clinical tests are essential in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Laboratory quality control plays a vital role helping to ensure the reliability of laboratory test results. Randox recognises the importance of accurate testing and have developed a wide range of quality control serum for verifying accuracy in clinical tests. Randox quality control serum has earned an excellent reputation and sees widespread use internationally. Quality control serum is necessary for quality performance of a laboratory. The use of quality-control serum in laboratory quality control to monitor laboratory performance is an essential part of any health laboratory. A control is a specimen with a known value or range of values that is tested like a patient sample in order to check the accuracy and precision of a testing method. These controls should be run on both qualitative (result is positive or negative) and quantitative (result is a number or value) tests. While the control sample is treated as a patient sample during the testing process, it is not collected, transported, or always stored like a patient sample.