The Conduct of Quality Control and Quality Assurance Testing for PoCT Outside the Laboratory.

Within pathology laboratories, quality assessment, internal\nquality control (QC) and external quality assurance (EQA) are\nintegral components of a laboratory’s quality system. They\nare tools to ensure that the quality of results being produced\nby laboratory testing will not compromise the clinical care\nof the patient. This criterion applies equally when the testing\nenvironment changes from the laboratory to the point of care,\nand the large laboratory instrument becomes a smaller device.