Understanding Quality Control Concepts

Program Date: 22 February 2022

Publication Date: 4 August 2022

Continuing Education Units: Hours: 1.0

Lecture Description

In this lecture, you will review quality control concepts from the history of QC principles; and learn how to become aware of assumptions that underpin traditional approaches to QC.

Lecture Objectives
  • Understand the history of quality control (QC) principles and how they have been applied to pathology testing.
  • Identify the components of a QC system.
  • Review assumptions that underpin the traditional approaches to QC.
  • Identify how these assumptions may not be applicable to infectious disease serology testing.

Run Time: 43

Lecture Instructor Bio(s)

Wayne Dimech, MBA, BAPP SCI

Scientific and Business Relations Manager
National Serology Reference Laboratory
Melbourne, Australia

Wayne Dimech is a Scientific and Business Relations Manager for the National Serology Reference Laboratory, a WHO Collaborating Centre. Dimech obtained a B.App. Sci; and an MBA. He is a fellow from the Australian Institute of Medical Scientists and the Faculty of Science (Research) of the Royal College of Pathologists Australia. He is a recognized expert in infectious disease serology and laboratory quality.