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Chapter 2: Quality Control Test
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When to Perform a Quality Control Test
• As required by your institution’s quality control
policy or local regulatory requirements.
• When you open a new bottle of test strips.
• If a patient test has been repeated and the blood
glucose results are still lower or higher than
expected.
• After cleaning the meter.
• If there are other indications that the system is not
working properly.
• If you drop the meter.
QC enforcement
❍
Warning only
❍
Meter lockout
To ensure that QC testing is performed on a meter
as required, a warning mode or lockout mode was
selected. Both modes display a message informing
you that QC testing is due. The warning mode
allows you to continue with a patient test; the
lockout mode prevents you from performing a
patient test or special tests until QC is successfully
performed.
❑
Require operator QC every ___ days
A second lockout mode prevents each operator who
has not performed QC testing within the
designated number of days from using the meter to
test patient blood.
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