Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

We knew that the accreditation agencies needed to develop their own policies to handle the new CMS IQCP regulations. CAP gets the prize for being first out of the gate with some practical steps, as well retaining some safeguards for quality.

IQCP, if it's not already burned into your head, stands for Individualized Quality Control Plan, and this is supposed to be the replacement for the EQC policies which have been in place for several years. The EQC policies are being replaced, you may recall, because they are scientifically untenable. It was hoped that IQCP was going to be more scientifically robust. That remains to be seen. CAP is attempting to assure that it will implement the CMS IQCP regulations but also provide a higher level of quality assurance than that low bar.

More after the jump.

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

A recent article about the experience of QMS tracking in a clinical laboratory in Nigeria raised some interesting questions about sources of errors in "developing world" laboratories.

Where would you expect a Nigerian Human Virology laboratory (HVL) to experience the most problems?

• pre-analytical processes
• analytical processes
• post-analytical processes

The answer, after the jump...

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS