Tydeman J, Morrison J I, Harwick D F, Cassidy P A
Am J Clin Pathol. 1982 May;77(5):528-33. doi: 10.1093/ajcp/77.5.528.
The impact of quality control procedures on the workload and the cost of the clinical laboratory during the last decade is explored. Quality control procedures are shown to represent a relatively constant share of test procedures for acute care admissions. The effect of automation on quality control testing in the laboratory has been to reduce the workload units per quality control test and thus to reduce the relative share of total laboratory costs incurred by quality control. The need to assess changes in the cost of quality control testing against any change in quality of laboratory output is emphasized.
探讨了过去十年质量控制程序对临床实验室工作量和成本的影响。结果表明，质量控制程序在急诊入院检测程序中所占比例相对稳定。实验室自动化对质量控制检测的影响是减少了每次质量控制检测的工作量单位，从而降低了质量控制在实验室总成本中所占的相对比例。强调了根据实验室检测质量的任何变化来评估质量控制检测成本变化的必要性。
