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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 22, 2009
Curtis A. Parvin, McKinney, TX (US);
John Yundt-pacheco, Fairview, TX (US);
Curtis A. Parvin, McKinney, TX (US);
John Yundt-Pacheco, Fairview, TX (US);
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Hercules, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method to automatically implement quality control of a clinical diagnostic process are disclosed. Upon generation of an internal error flag, a confirmation rule automatically checks a questionable patient statistic alert by testing a quality control specimen, applying event-related quality control rules to the results of that test, and provides an alert to the operator only upon a confirmed patient signal. The automatic quality control process thus eliminates the uncertainty of operator reaction to an alert signal and implements the quality control run automatically, without operator intervention.