Laboratory Medicine ›› 2016, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (1): 61-65.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2016.01.014

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Application of quality control circle on timely rate improvement in emergency biochemistry tests

YANG Lin, DONG Hangjun, CHENG Juan, JIANG Limin, FU Qihua, LI Huaiyuan   

  1. Department of Clinical Laboratory,Shanghai Children's Medical Center,Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine,Shanghai 200127,China
  • Received:2014-10-29 Online:2016-01-31 Published:2016-02-16

Abstract:

Objective To improve the timely rate of emergency biochemistry tests with quality control circle. Methods A quality control circle group was set up,and the data of sample turn-around time(TAT) for past 1 year of emergency biochemistry tests in Shanghai Children's Medical Center were analyzed. The reason causing TAT retardation was found,in order to draw up solutions to improve TAT status,and the efficiency was assessed. Results For the emergency biochemistry tests,4 major reasons contributed to TAT retardation:equipment busy at peak time,labor shortage for night-shift persons at morning time,inner sample transfer retardation and time-consuming for re-check of abnormal samples. Accordingly,through improving instrument test speed and sample distribution at peak time,optimizing sample transaction and human resource at specific time period,and pre-warning through laboratory information systems,all solutions could contribute to TAT improvement. The untimely rate reduced from 10.73% to 2.40%. Conclusions The TAT could be saved in clinical laboratories with the application of quality control circle,and it is worth to be adapted in clinical laboratories.

Key words: Quality control circle, Turn-around time, Emergency biochemistry test, Determination timely rate

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