Units > Quality Assurance > QA Course Materials
Lecture #1: (Click to view) (YouTube)
- Course objectives
- Introduction to quality
- Quality assurance
- Bio-statistics
Lecture #2: (Click to view) (YouTube)
- Basic definitions in quality
- Difference between QC and QA
- Types of laboratory errors
- Calculating the mean, SD and CV (Download)
- QC products and materials
Lecture #3: (Click to view) (YouTube)
- Draw QC charts
- Determine acceptable QC limits
- Discuss the acceptable QC result based on historical data (Westguard Rules)
Lecture #4: (Click to view)
- Systemic and random errors
- The allowable error limits
- Medical decision limits (Xc)
- Method selection & evaluation
Lecture #5: (Click to View)
- Reference Ranges
- How to establish a reference range
- Diagnostic Efficacy
- Diagnostic Sensitivity, Specificity and Predictive value
Lecture #6: (Click to View)
- Point of Care testing
- Why use POC tests
- How to establish a POC test
- How to perform QC on POC tests
Lecture #7: (Click to View)
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - A
- Why use SOPs
- How to make good SOPs
- ISO and accreditation requirements
Lecture #8: (Click to View)
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) - B
- Making a model SOP
- Identify necessary information that should be included in SOPs
Lecture #9: (Click to View)
- QC Assessments
- Internal QC
- External QC
- Advantages of internal & external QC
- BD Vacutainer® Venous Blood Collection
- BD Vacutainer® Order of Drawfor Multiple Tube Collections
Lecture #10: (Click to View)
- QC in Clinical Chemistry
Lecture #11: (Click to View)
- QC in Hematology
Lecture #12: (Click to View)
- QC in Microbiology
Lecture #13: (Click to View)
- ISO Standards