Laboratory Compliance 2011 - 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.

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. This includes pre-analytical, analytical, and post-analytical parts of the process as a whole. QA is now focused on measuring outcomes and developing actions based on findings. The Quality Control process has guidelines in place for all three levels of testing; Waived, Moderately Complex and High Complexity.

Attend this webinar to understand the differences and the proper methods to meet the guidelines. It is important to understand that measuring quality is essential to assessing quality. The measurement of processes and the outcomes is the only way to truly assess quality.