QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories

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Section One: Introduction to QC Planning

Section Two: QC Planning Tools and Techniques

Section Three: QC Planning Applications

Section Four: QC Planning in the Future

 

Here is a course schedule for use in planning your time with the lessons. We recommend trying to complete the course within 6 weeks, completing several lessons every week. Of course, you have the full ninety days to use before the examination.

Course Schedule

Section One: Introduction to QC Planning

Lesson Date Completed
1. Is analytical quality still an issue in laboratory testing?
2. What quality is needed for a laboratory test?
3. How do you manage quality?
4. How do you build quality into a laboratory testing process?

Section Two: QC Planning Tools and Techniques

Lesson Date Completed
5. How do you implement a practical QC planning process?
6. What are Power Function Graphs?
7. What are Critical-Error Graphs?
8. What are OPSpecs Charts?
9. What are Quality-Planning Models?
10. What is a Total QC Strategy?

Section Three: QC Planning Applications

Lesson Date Completed
11. How can you perform QC planning quickly -- within one minute?
12. How do you assess the performance of a recommended QC procedure?
13. How do you select acceptability criteria to satisfy CLIA guidelines?
14. How do you determine the precision and accuracy needed for a test?

Section Three: QC Planning Applications

Lesson Date Completed
15. Am I done with QC now?
16. What else is happening in Quality Management?

Evaluation and Examination

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James O. Westgard, Ph.D.
Course Instructor and Professor
Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Principal, Westgard Quality Corporation
Ogunquit, ME
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