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Call for participation of medical directors in a internet based quality control program (HIV, HBsAg etc) for bloodscreening laboratories in developing countries (INDIA)

A new initiative in the AIDS prevention in the bloodtransfusion service in INDIA. Blood transfusion counts in INDIA and most developing countries as the third factor in transmission of the disease after sexual contacts and drug use. Transfusion of blood and blood products accounts for approximately 5-10% of the global HIV infection. In some countries of the Southeast Asia Region, blood transfusion contributes substantially to HIV infection and AIDS. To reduce the number of post transfusion incidents Quality Control and Quality Assessment in bloodscreening laboratories is essential. Monitoring the quality of the bloodscreening by plotting the outcome of the runcontrols from the screening markers in a classical "Shewart Control Chart" and "Cumulative distribution" format. Because the multicenter setting you are able to observe the observations of the participants while maintaining the anonymity and the source of the data. By the law of large numbers ( Chebyshev's inequality) the period between the start of the deviation and the moment of detecting and signalling a deviation will decrees. You are able to breakdown the information according to reagent's runcontrol's and instrument. Set up your own national or regional quality circle of bloodscreening laboratories using your own or commercial available runcontrol's. QC samples from the manufacturer or prepared by the laboratories are periodicly included in run's. Results obtained from the QC samples including lotnumbers are entered in a international accessible database and plotted in the classical Stewart control chart on a daily basis. Plotting the QC data allows to observe trends towards a change in performance of the assay alerting them to potential problems. In addition a owner of a quality circle is able to organize a periodic External Quality Assessment Scheme EQAS.

Implementation and development of a national or regional reference laboratory can be stimulated. A participant in the role of national reference or regional reference laboratory can start his own group and can use the service to collect the data from the participating bloodscreening laboratories. Because the economy of scale your costs are reduced to a minimum, no IT staff and infrastructure is involved with the exception of internet connection, no investments in money and IT projects.

The service is for bloodscreening for bloodtransfusion free on the internet at : www.GlobalQualityServices.com. Please register and start your own quality circle in a local or regional or national context.

Sincerely,

John M Nivard
VisionFactory/GlobalQualityServices
Grote Oost 67
1621 BS Hoorn NH
The Netherlands
tel:+31653537046
email jnivard@hotmail.com