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There is a Gap between well-established QC theories and everyday practice in most labs.

Technical processes have advanced light years since 1950, and yet most labs are still using some lopsided variation on the old 1-2s rule for Quality Control. Only 56% of participants in a 2009 AACC Webinar said their laboratory could “guarantee that reported results are ‘close enough to right’ so clinicians can ‘always’ reach the right clinical interpretation.” What value are laboratory results that are not good enough to allow doctors to make the right clinical decision?

The next time you are frustrated by chasing meaningless QC flags, or failing a PT survey when QC looks just fine – consider the possibility that doing better QC can do more than improve clinical care (and PT performance), you can actually save time and money too!

Zoe Brooks uses 'good old-fashioned horse sense to help you make sense of QC charts and numbers so you can answer that critical question "Is this method OK?"