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Laboratory (SACCL)
QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Infectious immunology hepatitis B surface
APPROACHES TO QUALITY MANAGEMENT: antigen (HBsAg)
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
a. Total quality management (TQM)-focuses
hepatitis C virus (HCV)
themes, processes, statistics and delivery of services that meet or
exceed customer expectation
QUALITY CONTROL- monitors overall reliability of laboratory
b. Continuous quality improvement (CQI)- element of TQM that
results in terms of accuracy and precision
strives to continually improve practices and not just meet establish
quality standards QUALITY CONTROL/STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL samples
the measurement procedure by assaying QC materials for which
c. Six sigma- hands on process based on statistics and quantitative
the correct result is known in advance monitors the overall
measurements with a single mantra of improvements
reliability of laboratory results in terms of accuracy and
PROCESS OF SIGMA 5 STEPS: precision.
1.Define Terms:
2.Measure 1) Accuracy- closeness to the result to the true or actual
value
3.Analyze
2) Precision- results that agree closely with each other
4.Improve
NRL-EQAS: