Laboratory information management system software

This is a quality control sheet, the record laboratory information management system software keeps that the accreditation assessor opens first. Batches per week times QC samples per batch is the controls the week runs; times 52 over 12 is the month's; batches times reportable tests is the tests; controls over tests is the QC share; controls times the cost per control is the spend; and the spend over the month's reportable tests is the QC cost every result carries. Every figure is yours, including the scheme; the sheet publishes no rule. Free, on the page, no account; the paid plan keeps every batch with its controls against the samples it carried.

The QC share of the bench

25 batches a week at three controls and 12 reportable tests is 75 controls against 300 tests, a 25% share on the worked example. The share is the figure that says how much of the bench the scheme takes; the sheet works it from the scheme rather than from a feeling.

The spend, per month and per result

325 controls a month at $14 is $4,550, and over 1,300 reportable results it is $3.50 carried by every result. The per-result figure belongs in the cost per test sheet on this site; the sheet returns it so the two agree.

What the sheet does not decide

How many blanks, duplicates, spikes and reference materials a batch needs is the method's and the accreditation scheme's decision, not this sheet's. It works what any scheme costs; the quality manager decides the scheme.