What if U could see the risk in your lab?
Zoe Brooks
Consultant, Author, International Lecturer, and AI Enthusiast Co-Founder and Product Manager at ElevateQC Passionate about Teaching, Innovation, and Improving Laboratory Quality
“Risk is the combination of [A] the probability of occurrence of harm and [B] the severity of that harm” (ISO/IEC Guide 51). If the Laboratory Director sets Medical Goals and Acceptable Risk Criteria that are acceptable to ‘The PIPS' (Patients, Institutions, Physicians and Society, the computer can manage the process and guide staff to meet these standards.
Let the ice in the photo above represent patients exposed to unacceptable risk of harm, with calcium tests, where NIST has established the cost of MURs at various error limits. Lab A set their medical goal at 0.5 mg/dL (0.125 mmol/L) with an average cost of error to patients of $100 and acceptable risk criteria of <1 MUR/Year. Labs B, C & D all use the CLIA limit of 1.0 mg/dL (0.250 mmol/L) with an average cost of error to patients of $200 and acceptable risk criteria of 3 sigma, 5% and <1 MUR/Year, respectively.
If you could see the risk, which laboratory would you choose?
If software could guide you to save millions of dollars, would you choose it very carefully and make it prove that claim?
M.O.R.E. Quality makes QC as easy as easy as 1, 2, 3 for the laboratory director.
Would you like to know M.O.R.E.?
1. Download The Checklist of Best Practice for Risk Management in Statistical QC
2. Stay tuned to join the team as a Participant, Analyst or Panellist to:
- research best practice to manage patient risk in medical laboratories;
- measure existing patient risk against regulated, evidence-based or clinical allowable error limits for calcium, glucose and sodium
- compare key features of existing and proposed statistical quality control processes;
- evaluate the ability of existing statistical quality control (SQC) processes and "Mathematically-OptimiZed?" SQC processes to
- meet best practice recommendations
- detect simulated method failure
- quantify potential reduction in:
- financial risk exposure from medical laboratory errors
- in-lab costs to perform quality control
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OK ... now you post a picture to show how statistical QC and sigma works!
Happily Retired 2020, but currently actively looking for new remote job opportunities. Health Administration, Laboratory Management, Team Manager, Coding and Billing Specialist
7 年Hello Everyone, QC for the Laboratory Director can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 if everything runs smoothly. The technicians, phlebotomists, managers and director must all be on the same page. Notice I mentioned the phlebotomist, yes they play a very important part in this group. They are the ones that if patient samples are not collected correctly, meaning correct order of draw with tubes, preparing the site correctly just to name a few, can have an effect on the results. The same with the controls, if they need to be reconsituted correctly and correct temperature. After this, then comes the easy part. Gahtering the data and logging it in the computer. This is were the director needs to make sure all of the QC rules and regulations are in place. Time consuming and tedious, but well worth the out come for the patients and laboratory. Correct patient results make the doctors job easier in making the correct diagnosis and treatment.