Abstract
To the Editor: The main purpose of statistical quality control (SQC)1 is to prevent patient results with medically important errors (produced as a result of instabilities of the analytical process) from reaching healthcare providers and causing incorrect clinical decisions, thus harming patients. The main goal of risk-based SQC planning is to select the most efficient and effective quality control (QC) procedures that can be used to limit the risk of patient harm to an acceptable residual level. As the number of erroneous patient results for a given test reported to healthcare providers is related to the harm caused to patients, the acceptable risk level can …
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