Abstract
Promoting accurate and precise result reporting through robust quality control (QC) process is critical to the practice of a pathologist. We present Pathology Queensland’s model of a Statewide QC program to streamline assay performance monitoring.1 Introduced in 2009 across 35 laboratories, a single target for the majority of analysers is provided by the reference laboratory using the 12.5 rule of Blum.2 Laboratories are supplied with new lots of QC material accompanied by provisional targets on a continuous basis with final targets set according to Statewide performance. Furthermore, the introduction of Unity Real Time in July 2013, a QC software package, saw the implementation of a common QC reporting platform. Monthly reports are generated and distributed whereby performance of individual laboratories can be critically analysed. This platform has allowed a more efficient and transparent analysis of Statewide QC data in addition to enabling laboratories to compare their performance to other laboratories in the network. In addition to the introduction of this program it is required that QC plots are reviewed daily at minimum to ensure any potential decline in assay performance is identified promptly.
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