Laboratory testing of patient samples can be a complex procedure, depending on clinical analysis, microbiological study, or blood banking testing among other facets of the clinical laboratory. Quality control (QC) is one of the most important impacts on laboratory testing—it ensures both precision and accuracy of patient sample results. The integrity of quality control samples is important to both management of overall quality as well as to meeting requirements of proficiency testing. Addressing QC issues is critical to the identification of potential errors with patient results, including reagent matrix effects as well as calibration misalignment of testing function. Maintaining accurate and frequent checks of laboratory sample testing through quality control is vital to ensuring that patient testing is done right and that it produces accurate results.
Undergraduate
