Laboratory Quality Control

Laboratory Quality Control

The laboratory quality control protocols describe the process of identifying analytical errors within the medical laboratory to guarantee both the reliability and accuracy of test results to provide the most reliable and effective patient care.

Unpredictable and unreliable test results can result in the under- or over-diagnosis of disease, delayed or incorrect treatment, and increased costs due to the need for retesting, rediagnosis, and new treatment options. In the worst case, patient misdiagnosis can have serious, if not life-threatening, consequences.

Therefore, it is of utmost importance, and this cannot be highlighted enough, that laboratories must ensure that all test results provided are both accurate and reliable.

At Solomon Park Research Laboratories, Inc, we have devoted our attention to producing commutable quality control and calibration test kits of the highest caliber. They are designed and optimized for use with all laboratory equipment and are brand-independent. These commutable products, produced under our SPRL-RefKits™ and AccuBase-CQM™ trademarked services, mimic and mirror patient sample performance, and provide researchers and lab technicians with an unbiased, independent assessment of analytical performance.

Contact Solomon Park now to discuss your laboratory quality control needs

Solomon Park’s experts advise the use of a single multi-analyte commutable control to assist with the consolidation of your lab’s current controls. This eliminates the need to obtain individual quality control kits for each laboratory instrument or system.

Solomon Park’s pooled sera, in the form of quality control test kits, are used to assess laboratory instrument and system performance. We send our pooled sera to a reference lab to benchmark the sera’s reference points before we send it out to our clients. These controls are used as a means to determine accuracy and precision throughout the laboratory and across all systems and instruments.

The benefits of our pooled human sera quality control kits are as follows:

• The analyte levels will be in the patient normal range; therefore, providing a reference point when evaluating patient clinical samples that have significantly different levels.
• The instrument stability is validated like a true third-party control.
• Decreased risk of infection as our pooled sera is tested for infectious diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis.
• Solomon Park’s manufacturing capacity allows us to supply laboratories with a consistent, long-term supply of quality control materials. Our materials are stable and enable long-term quality control monitoring.
• Instrument and reagent producers assign their own control values which can lead to large standard deviations and unrealistic wide ranges. Solomon Park Research Labs’ quality control and calibration kits provide medical laboratories with a commutable product that mimics human patient clinical samples; thus, providing a benchmark for accurate test results.

Independent medical laboratories are required to produce genuine, independent, multi-method, and multi-analyzer data. At Solomon Park, we make this possible through our access to a unique database of results supplied by more 16,000 independent labs.

Contact Solomon Park Research Labs now to discuss how our quality-control materials can improve your laboratory’s quality control measures; to ensure that they are consistent, reliable, and of an extremely high standard all the time.