Reducing Laboratory Risk

Are you interested in enhancing patient care? By answering a few short questions, you can help Bio-Rad generate the state of the art QC planning tools your lab needs to keep delivering the highest quality patient care possible.

QC Plan: QC Rules and Frequency

1. When your QC is out of control what do you do? (check all that apply)

	What do you do?	How Often? (per event)	Estimated Cost (per event)
	What do you do?	How Often? (per event)	Estimated Cost (per event)	Rerun QC	Rerun QC: What do you do?: What do you do?	How Often? (per event)	Estimated Cost (per event)
Troubleshoot	Troubleshoot: What do you do?: What do you do?	How Often? (per event)	Estimated Cost (per event)
Retest Patient Samples	Retest Patient Samples: What do you do?: What do you do?	How Often? (per event)	Estimated Cost (per event)

2. When your QC is in control are you concerned that there might be undetected issues affecting the reliability of your results?

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3. QC Plan

What is the biggest challenge with your current QC Plan?

How do you set your QC Rules?

How do you select your QC Frequency?

4. What are the most important ways in which risk of reporting incorrect patient results affect your lab? Order the items from the following list. First select an item with the spacebar to show a menu of possible ranking positions. Next, click a ranking position to order it in the ranked list. Note the menu will display more ordering options as you add items to the ranked list.

Reputation
Cost
Time

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5. How valuable would a tool that helps you create a custom QC Plan be to your lab, if you could utilize the parameters of your choice to reduce incorrect patient results?

Not Valuable	Valuable	Very Valuable
Not Valuable	Valuable	Very Valuable

6. What are the most important components of such a tool? Order the items from the following list. First select an item with the spacebar to show a menu of possible ranking positions. Next, click a ranking position to order it in the ranked list. Note the menu will display more ordering options as you add items to the ranked list.

Easy to Use
Connected to my QC software
Clearly shows patient risk
Clearly shows what QC plan to implement