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Integrated quality control in diagnostic lab : the Graz system
Analytical quality of laboratory results has great impact on the standard of patient care. Laboratories are often unaware that their analytical quality standards permit unacceptable variability which may have a substantial impact on patient safety. Modern quality control software tools, such as URT, allow state-of-the-art administration and interpretation of internal quality control results, thus facilitating high analytical quality in all areas of medical laboratories. Integrating such an advanced internal quality control system with high level external quality controls provides additional security and helps identifying the cause of erratic quality controls.
This presentation explains how the central laboratory at the Medical University of Graz (Austria) has redesigned its quality control system and how this has improved analytical quality.’
Designing QC Procedures for Multiple Instruments
With lab consolidation, many laboratories are running the same analyte on multiple instruments. This produces an additional challenge as there will be bias between the instruments with some running higher than the group and some running lower than the group.
This presentation will assess the impact of using a single QC target and SD for the instrument population:
- The impact on the risk of patient harm from erroneous results when using a single QC target will be compared to using individual instrument means.
- The impact on the distribution of false rejections when using a single QC SD will be compared to using individual instrument SD's.
- The impact on managing the QC program with single QC targets / SD's compared to using individual instrument means/SD's
Speakers
Integrated quality control in diagnostic lab: the Graz system
Dr Markus Herrmann,
Lab Director at Graz Hospital (Austria)
Markus Herrmann graduated in medicine at the University of Würzburg (GER). In 2007 he completed his training as clincial pathologist at the University of Saarland (GER). In the same year Markus received a postdoc-grant and moved to Sydney. There he worked at the ANZAC-Research-Institute, the Royal-Prince-Alfred Hospital and at Laverty Pathology. In 2011 he received RCPA fellowship and became an associate professor at the University of Sydney. Between 2012 and 2017 Markus directed the Central Laboratory at Bolzano Hospital (ITA). Since 2017 he heads the Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics at the Medical University of Graz (AUT).
Designing QC Procedures for Multiple Instruments
John Yundt Pacheco,
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Mr. Yundt-Pacheco performs research in quality control and patient risk issues in the Informatics Discovery Group at Bio-Rad. John has had the opportunity to work with laboratories around the world, developing practical real time, inter-laboratory quality control and proficiency testing systems. As an innovator, has developed numerous ideas leading to 37 laboratory related invention patents around the globe.
John holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas with a focus on Intelligent Systems and has a Post Master's Certificate in Sequence Analysis and Genomics, and is a degree candidate for a Master's degree in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to authoring articles and papers on QC design, he is a popular speaker on laboratory QC and QA topics at international conferences.