Best Practices in Quality Control for the Clinical Laboratory

Dr. med. Matthias Orth

Chief Physician, Medical Director, 
Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Marienhospital, Stuttgart, Germany

ABSTRACT

Quality control in the clinical diagnostics laboratory is essential for confidence in laboratory test results and consequently patient safety.

This interactive virtual experience will share concepts and practice for quality control in a modern laboratory with a virtual visit to the laboratory at the Marienhospital, Stuttgart.

We will highlight the key advantages to be gained from modern laboratory processes, instrumentation, test procedures, data analysis, and reporting. This will be followed by an interview section addressing the challenges faced by modern laboratories and some best practice solutions. Finally, we will have a live audience Q&A session where participants can submit additional questions and share experiences.

Key learning objectives

• Explain the essential and important basics of quality control (QC) in the clinical diagnostics laboratory
• Build awareness and confidence in discussing how to tackle some of the common challenges experienced by modern labs in managing QC practices optimally
• Identify further sources of support information, tools and solutions in the area of QC

Who should attend?

Laboratory directors, medical laboratory technicians, quality managers, and personnel dealing with medical laboratory processes – only a basic knowledge of quality control procedures is required.

Certificate of attendance
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