Phadia's External Quality Assessment Program for Specific IgE, Total IgE, ECP* and EliA Autoimmunity
As a member of Quality Club, you are part of an international testing community that not only uses the same precision in vitro allergy diagnostic tools, but shares a commitment to monitoring and maintaining high standards for laboratory performance.
Participating in Quality Club means more than just statistics. Membership enables you to monitor your laboratory's performance month by month, and provides an early indication of system error.
The demand for better quality assessment is growing. The well-documented information that Quality Club provides helps members monitor performance and secure high standards of accuracy and reliability. Physicians who use member laboratories can be confident in the results they receive.
Each Quality Assessment Kit contains enough reagents and materials for four months. It includes numbered control samples, result cards, addressed return envelopes and directions for use.
* Eosinophil Cationic Protein
How to become a member
Quality Club membership is open to laboratories operating ImmunoCAP allergy testing systems as well as EliA Autoimmunity testing systems.
For more information, please contact your local Phadia office, or e-mail the central Quality Club Administrator.
Quality Club Monthly Reports
Every month, the assay results from participating laboratories are compiled by Phadia. In return, they will receive a detailed confidential report.
This report is based on a computer analysis of the laboratory assay results using established statistical methods. It includes detailed yet easy-to-interpret data given in concentration and presented as histograms
The results are given as concentrations, deviations in percent from common means, and as deviation scores. The laboratory can see the number of other laboratories participating and compare their own results with theirs.
In addition...
In addition, Quality Club sends you valuable summaries after each four month testing cycle. These results are presented graphically and include the observations made during the previous twelve months. Once again, your results are compared internationally with other laboratories. You also receive 12 monthly trend statistics showing how your laboratory performance shifts with time. These data help you maintain test procedures or improve them where necessary. They provide timely signals of system errors, calibration problems, or can indicate a need to improve technician training.
Quality Club on Extranet - for direct registration and downloading of reports
Quality Club members can now register their results directly on the Extranet and also download reports through the Extranet. All you need is a username and a password. Access is made available from the Internet startpage (see Extranet). For access to Extranet, please contact your local market company or the Quality Club Administrator.