In Brief: Electronic QC controls
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Electronic QC controls: i-Stat's hand-held, automated blood chemistry analyzer was not referenced in an Oct. 13 Health Care Financing Administration memo sent to HCFA regional offices to "clarify and define" surveyor guidelines on electronic quality control in quantitative automated analyzers. Another undated version of the memo, cited by "The Gray Sheet" (Oct. 30, I&W-1), referenced the i-Stat device. The Oct. 13 memo notes that the use of electronic quality controls in quantitative automated analyzers "will be re-evaluated for the final, final" regulations for the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988...