MODULE 7: QUALITY CONTROL
7-6 AEROSET
®
Customer Training Guide
94858-103 — July 2003
3. Select the checkbox (;
;;
;) under the desired QC level by touching the
box. Up to eight levels of QC can be run for an assay. The selected
levels apply to all assays ordered for that QC run.
When this option
is selected...
The controls are measured... Additional Settings
1
QC after Calib Automatically after calibration, to verify
the calibration curve.
Select desired QC levels,
QC1 - QC8.
2
Start-QC Prior to the patient samples, at the
beginning of the run.
NOTE: Start-QC will only be run
if it is selected when the System
Status is READY.
• Enter the number of replicates,
1 - 50 allowed in the Data
Entry field next to Reps.
• Select <Order> to display the
SELECT ASSAYS FOR
START-QC screen. Select the
assays for control
measurement.
• Select desired QC levels,
QC1 - QC8.
3
Interval-QC At specified count (sample) or time
intervals defined on the QC tab of the
Assay Configuration screen.
NOTE: The count (sample)
interval refers to the total number
of samples aspirated, not the total
number of samples run for that
assay.
Refer to Section 2, Installation
Procedures and Special
Requirements of the AEROSET
System Operations Manual for
details on QC configuration.
• Select <Order> to display the
SELECT ASSAYS FOR
INTERVAL-QC screen.
Select the assays for control
measurement.
• If As Needed is selected, QC
measurement for an assay is
performed at the defined
intervals only when that assay
was ordered for at least one
patient sample during the
interval.
• If As Needed is NOT selected,
QC measurement is performed
at the defined intervals even if
the assay was not run on a
patient sample during the
interval.
• Select desired QC levels,
QC1 - QC8.
4
End-QC After the patient samples are completed
and for each assay run on the patient
samples since the last READY status.
Select desired QC levels,
QC1 - QC8.
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