CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) Guidelines on Quality Control and Quality Assessment

This Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) training will be valuable to CLIA regulated non-waived laboratories that run automated analyzers or semi-quantitative kit tests.

Why Should You Attend:

All non-waived laboratories must have a QC and QA plan that meets CLIAs’s regulations. CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) has updated its requirements for QC and QA. CLIA has replaced the term Quality Assurance with the term Quality Assessment. The new guidelines regarding QA specifically stress measuring quality through all aspects of the testing process.

Areas Covered in the Seminar:

• Quality Assurance vs. Quality Assessment: Why the Change?
• The Three Phases of Testing.
• Quality Assessment Systems That Work.
• Quality Control: Principles and Practice.
• QC for Waived Testing: Is Minimum Enough?
• QC Formulas and Their Use.
• Why QC and QA are linked processes.
• Measurement indicators for QA.