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Said: : "Hello everyone, I was wondering if any I-Stat users have had a CLIA inspection? If so what was said about the IQCP's? When I developed my IQCP's I pulled information from numerous I-Stats but did an IQCP for each cartridge type, G4, ACT...

Said: : "At my institution we have RALSBeakerEpic. If they test the wrong patient for an interfaced test, The POCT department goes into Beaker to add a comment that this result does not belong to the patient and that is was test in error. We never...

Said: : "We do the same as Silka - choose a rotating subset of 5 meters and run levels 1,3,5 on each meter for CG4 and Chem8 to cover all analytes. I also have troponin so I do that as well. This is at my CAP sites. At my 2 COLA sites, we have ce...

Said: : "We also perform with each new lot number and eqc every 8 hours of patient testing. What is everyone doing for the HDR cartridge QC? Our current method involves tracking slope values for 50 patients and re-evaluating the min/max and mean...