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Are your lab results raising red flags? Know what matters clinically — and what doesn’t. When IQC and EQA results fall outside acceptable limits, it’s no longer just about technical nonconformities — it’s about potential clinical harm. ISO 15189:2022 (Clauses 7.3.7.2 g and 7.3.7.3 h & i) requires medical laboratories to determine whether these failures […]

Patient-centered medical laboratory testing requires implementation of rigorous quality control measures to ensure the accuracy and reliability of test results before releasing them to patients. These measures include Internal Quality Control (IQC) and External Quality Assessment (EQA), both evaluated against predefined acceptability criteria. Unacceptable IQC or EQA results are not problems per se but indicators

𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 marked the onset of the much-awaited Internal Audit Training at Lwala Community Alliance — and we started on a high note! Participants hit the ground running — 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔, and committed to 𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒍 for daily quality improvement in the lab. ✨ 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐀𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 Audits are not