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IQC Journey: Building the Foundation and Routine of Internal Quality Control
The PDF shows a simple guide for IQC planning, based on the requirements of the new ANVISA RDC 786/2023.
Very valuable for laboratories that face challenges in applying Control and daily validating quantitative tests, performing the correct critical analysis to ensure the safety of delivered results.
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Main guidelines of RDC 786 for the clinical laboratory
Simple PDF for you to consult some of the guidelines of RDC 786/2023 ANVISA for the clinical laboratory.
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Internal Control for the clinical success of the laboratory
In the material you will find essential information that will improve the quality of analyses performed in your laboratory:
– What is Internal Quality Control?
– The Importance of Internal Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory
– Internal Quality Control in accordance with ANVISA RDC 786
– Impact of IQC in the Clinical Laboratory for Regulatory Compliance
– Benefits of IQC for the Laboratory
– Methods for Internal Quality Control
– How to Ensure Effective IQC
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Comparative Analysis of methods for Internal Quality Control
For the Quality Manager in the Clinical Laboratory
PDF with problem analysis for each method used and their comparisons: Package Insert Range, Spreadsheets, LIS/Equipment e IQC System.
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O caminho of Internal Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory
The IQC Journey is a simple system to follow, delivering tools for quality managers and laboratory professionals who need to:
• Apply the rules for all analytes daily,
• Know the errors and perform critical analysis rapidamente;
• Have a stable analytical system, achieving confidence in releasing results to patients.
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The process of Critical Analysis in Internal Quality Control
Discover the 7 strategic steps that quality managers are using to handle non-conformities in the clinical laboratory analytical system, ensuring effective prevention of recurrence.
PDF with the Critical Analysis process in the Internal Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory, working on root cause search and facilitating decision-making.
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The 3 items you must never fail to analyze in IQC
For the Quality Manager in the Clinical Laboratory
PDF with the etapas to analisar a estabilidade of the analytical system. Only by analyzing these items together is it possible to understand the errors and know what decision to make to correct deviations.
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Multiple Rules of Internal Quality Control in the Clinical Laboratory
Learn the Westgard Rules and how to apply them!
• Encontre: A description of the eight most used rules and the graphical view (Levey-Jennings).
• Entenda: How the rules are applied at various levels.
• Aplique: Day-to-day interpretations in internal quality control.
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7 Fundamental Attitudes for Handling non-conformities in the clinical laboratory
Learn to handle errors and loss of control in the laboratory analytical system.
The professional responsible for Quality Management must always:
• Develop strategies to solve problems
• Measure and conhecer a fundo the performance of your analytical systems
• Analisar carefully the emerging non-conforming situations
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Methods used for Internal Quality Control in the clinical laboratory: PLANILHAS
Are spreadsheets useful as control methods in the Clinical Laboratory?
• Encontre: Good reasons for choosing the right IQC method.
• Entenda: How the limitations of package insert range verification prevent valuable benefits.
• Aplique: Knowledge for choosing the right method to perform good quality control.
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6 Reasons to Take Care of Internal Quality Control in the clinical laboratory
Why Should I Take Care of Quality?
Find the reasons for performing Quality Control and the benefits achieved:
• Profissionalismo
• Favorable Technological Advances
• Laboratory Management
• Ethics
• Laboratory Accreditation
• Conformidade Legal
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Methods used for Internal Quality Control in the clinical laboratory: PACKAGE INSERT RANGE
Is performing internal control through the Package Insert Range sufficient?
• Encontre: Good reasons for choosing the right IQC method.
• Entenda: How the limitations of package insert range verification prevent valuable benefits.
• Aplique: Knowledge for choosing the right method to perform good quality control.
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3 items you must never fail to analyze in the Clinical Laboratory Internal Quality Control
• Comparison of the Coefficient of Variation: The CV can be used to compare the performance of one laboratory to another.
• Visual interpretation of the Levey-Jennings chart: Internal control chart that identifies deviations, trends, and randomness.
• Analysis by multiple internal control rules: A set of decision criteria to identify whether an analytical run is in control.
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Interpretation exercises for the Levey-Jennings chart
Expand your knowledge of Levey-Jennings Charts and improve internal control analyses in the clinical laboratory!
• Encontre: Exercises to practice visual interpretation of the Levey-Jennings chart.
• Entenda: Limits in a control chart, plotting methods, and non-conformity information.
•Aplique: Interpretation methods in day-to-day work with your team.
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Control Samples in the analytical performance of the clinical laboratory
Learn everything about the fundamental component in the quality system structure of a laboratory
Have the complete material at hand!
In it you will find:
• Use of Control Samples in monitoring analytical systems;
• What are the critical aspects, from selection to daily use;
• Ways to keep the control sample stable and reference for appropriate judgments on possible loss of control.
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How to handle ERROS in the Clinical Laboratory Internal Quality Control
• Encontre: Explanations about error types and strategies for handling loss of control situations.
• Entenda: The meaning of systematic and random errors and their correlation with multiple rules, or Westgard Rules.
• Aplique: Concepts and day-to-day strategies for analysis, root cause identification, and problem solving.
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The 3 Phases of exames laboratoriais
Mapping these phases and main processes helps the laboratory team understand important points and where they can act for controls and improvements.
• Encontre: The main mapping of the three phases of clinical laboratory tests.
• Entenda: Observation and control points and where to improve processes in performing tests.
• Aplique: Concepts and strategies for greater functionality in each phase and improving work in your laboratory
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4 Scenarios of Analytical Control
We present here four scenarios in which three elements are correlated: the target, the Gaussian curve, and the control chart, or Levey-Jennings chart
• Encontre: The visual correlation between the three elements, making an analogy with the target — an object of general knowledge about objectives, hits, and errors.
• Entenda: The meaning of Imprecision and Inaccuracy and how these situations are represented in the control chart.
• Aplique: Concepts and interpretations in control chart analysis, in evaluating the analytical quality of the clinical laboratory.
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10 steps to implement Internal Quality Control in the clinical laboratory
The professional responsible for Quality Management in the laboratory must maintain control methods that ensure the continuity of the intended and implemented quality.
• Encontre: A step-by-step guide to implementing quality control.
• Entenda: The necessary steps for organization and how using an online program helps good quality control.
• Aplique: Efficient Quality Control in your laboratory.