Help create consensus in severity of harm scales

Quality control strategy

Your chance to be part of a quality control innovation

Over the past 60 years, we’ve been working hard to push quality control forward in medical labs, and improve the overall quality of patient care. And now, we’re looking for your help.


Like you, our goal is to produce reliable patient results, as we know that unreliable results can lead to patient harm. But what is severity of harm and how can a lab use this criteria to define and optimize its quality control strategy?


We’re asking leading professionals to help develop a standardized scale for severity of harm parameters in laboratories. Our quick survey will ask you to rate analytes based on how you currently measure their severity of harm.


Complete the survey and get the opportunity to:


  • Estimate the severity of patient harm associated with an incorrectly reported result
  • Use your medical lab knowledge to establish an international consensual classification
  • Help to improve patient risk management
  • See how your assessment compare to your peers

    • Complete the survey:
    Click here for survey #2

    Would you like to receive the survey #2 results? Leave your contact details in the survey and we will contact you.

    With more than 260 responses coming from +40 countries, the survey #1 was a success. We already analyzed the data collected , and published the outcome of the survey in the Journal of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CCLM)

    Here are the references for the article:

    Patient risk management in laboratory medicine: an international survey to assess the severity of harm associated with erroneous reported results.

    Peltier, L., Aelst, S. V., Peeters, B., Raimbourg, J.-B. & Yundt-Pacheco, J.Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. CCLM (2025)
    doi:10.1515/cclm-2024-1477.

    Download the CCLM Publication

    The preliminary results of Survey #1 have also been presented in a poster. ​ This poster earned the AACC Management Sciences and Patient Safety Division Abstract Award for Outstanding Research in Patient Safety.

    Download the Poster




    After you’ve completed the survey, explore how we’re creating innovative quality control solutions, and see how our Mission: Control software is redefining quality control strategies.


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