Said: Lisa,We didn't perform a new study to eliminate the monthly QC. We did, however, amend our risk assessment to add the paragraph I copied in my previous post.

Said: Christina, That's exactly what we are thinking too! What study did you perform to eliminate the monthly QC for the change in the IQCP?

Said: Gloria, thank you for your reply. I spoke with CAP regarding the EPOC because I was not clear on the external QC requirements. CAP said that since Epocs are considered single use devices that are calibrated with each card inserted that ...

Said: We are CAP accredited and have 26 EPOC devices. Upon implementation, we too did a 30-day study for our IQCP to justify monthly QC. For a long time we ran all 4 levels on every device every month.Last year we revisited this proce...

Said: I recently had a long talk about IQCPs with a Joint Commission representative. The reason for the IQCPs is to justify when we choose to depart from the CMS/ CLIA dictate of "QC should be run every day of patient testing". ...