Lesson 9: QC Planning Tools - What are Quality Planning Models?
The theoretical and conceptual basis of the QC planning process
and the QC planning tools are based on the expected relationship between
a quality requirement and the factors that contribute to the variability
of a test result. In this lesson on Quality Planning Models,
Dr. Westgard uses the concept of an error budget to describe the relationships
between analytical total error criteria with analytical factors and clinical
decision criteria with preanalytical and analytical factors. Participants
should review the two cholesterol examples that represent applications
of these analytical and clinical error budgets (Cholesterol with
Analytical Quality Requirement, Cholesterol with Clinical
Quality Requirement).