Professional Documents
Culture Documents
CONTROL”
AN OVERVIEW
BY,
S.S.K.CHAITANYA
SECTION-A
REGD. NO:6193
Definitions:
• Quality Control - QC refers to the measures that must be
included during each assay run to verify that the test is
working properly.
• Quality Assurance - QA is defined as the overall program
that ensures that the final results reported by the laboratory
are correct.
• “The aim of quality control is simply to ensure that the
results generated by the test are correct. However, quality
assurance is concerned with much more: that the right test is
carried out on the right specimen, and that the right result and
right interpretation is delivered to the right person at the right
time”
Definitions (2)
•Reagents
•Equipment
x x
x x
True x x x x
Value x x x
x x x
x
x
x
Systematic Error
x
x x x x x x x
True x
Value
Internal Quality Control
Program for Serological
Testing
An internal quality control program depend on the use of internal
quality control (IQC) specimens, Shewhart Control Charts, and
the use of statistical methods for interpretation.
60 +3 sd
50 +2 sd
40 +1 sd
30 Target value
20 -1 sd
10 -2 sd
0 -3 sd
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Assay Run
VZV IgG ELISA: Target Value = 49 U/ml
Warning rules
60 +3 sd
50 +2 sd
40 +1 sd
30 Target value
20 -1 sd
10 -2 sd
0 -3 sd
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Assay Run
VZV IgG ELISA: Target Value = 49 U/ml
Westgard Rules: 10X
100
90
80
70
Antibody Units
60 +3 sd
50 +2 sd
40 +1 sd
30 Target value
20 -1 sd
10 -2 sd
0 -3 sd
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Assay Run
VZV IgG ELISA: Target Value = 49 U/ml
Follow-up action in the event of a
violation