Utilidad de los controles de calidad de tercera opinión y su importancia en la verificación del control de calidad interno

Abstract

Abstract: Quality management in the clinical laboratory has tools such as quality controls which allow to operate in an adequate and standardized way in order to achieve results with a high degree of safety and conformity. The CLSI and ISO 1589-2012 standards cite the use of third opinion quality controls to help detect analytical errors, thus motivating the acquisition and execution of the same. Quality in the clinical laboratory seeks to obtain results with accuracy, reliability and timeliness and are an essential part to ensure the proper functioning of the systems. The present research aims to determine the usefulness of independent quality controls or third opinion and its implementation in an IVD equipment sales institution. The methodological approach is cross-sectional descriptive, the data of the inferential analysis will be by means of Anova. In the data evaluation, a wide correlation between groups of quality controls was obtained and an improvement plan was suggested to make the processes more efficient in the short, medium and long term.