Catalogue of Molecular Biology Programs Release 6.1 23 Jul 1999 All thanks are in the file biocatal.thanks. ===================================================================== AC BC00569 NAME QC-Record DOMAIN Quality Control DESCRIPTION QC-Record is a menu-driven program that DESCRIPTION provides a specialised environment for handling all quality DESCRIPTION control storage needs. It incorporates facilities to store DESCRIPTION QC data, which can be reviewed in graphical form or as pure DESCRIPTION data, on screen or as hard copy. Easy to set up, but at DESCRIPTION the same time very configurable, the program offers the DESCRIPTION opportunity for the user to define their own quality DESCRIPTION control rules, although it is supplied as standard with DESCRIPTION rules based on criteria proposed by Westgard and associates DESCRIPTION (A Multi-Rule Shewart Chart for Quality Control in Clinical DESCRIPTION Chemistry. Clin. Chem 27,493-500, 1981). Hardware DESCRIPTION requirements are low, and it will run as a stand-alone DESCRIPTION package, or across a computer network. AUTHOR J. G. Williams RT - ADDRESS JGW Computing, ADDRESS 11 Bramley Close, ADDRESS Colletts Green, ADDRESS Powick. ADDRESS Worcester. ADDRESS WR2 4SR ADDRESS UK CONTACT jgw.computing@zetnet.co.uk SITE WWW Server at URL http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/jgw.computing OS DOS, will run under Windows LANGUAGE Clipper VOLUME 2 Mb REQUIRES 286 or above COMMENTS Limited version can be downloaded from the web-site. AC BC00580 NAME QualCont DOMAIN Quality Control DOMAIN General tools DESCRIPTION QUALCONT is a programme designed for internal quality DESCRIPTION control of manual analytical techniques in clinical DESCRIPTION laboratories. It records the control charts, archives the DESCRIPTION data and calculates the validation ranges. DESCRIPTION Simple access to the main functions by means of icons and DESCRIPTION the on-line help facilities provided means that QUALCONT is DESCRIPTION a programme which can be immediately utilised without DESCRIPTION training by all aboratory personnel who are familiar with DESCRIPTION control charts. DESCRIPTION The number of analytes is unlimited, and each one is DESCRIPTION provided with up to three control levels. The three levels DESCRIPTION are validated simultaneously after display within coloured DESCRIPTION graphics which represent the control ranges of acceptable, DESCRIPTION warning and rejection. These ranges are calculated from DESCRIPTION the previously entered data using Student's t statistic DESCRIPTION with pre-definable probability thresholds. The decision DESCRIPTION limits can be locked to any date interval or remain mobile. DESCRIPTION Four rejection rules are also tested. DESCRIPTION Each QC point may be connected to a comment. Whenever the DESCRIPTION lot number of a control material changes, the statistical DESCRIPTION data of the previous batch are archived and the control DESCRIPTION chart is restarted. Deletion of outliers can be password- DESCRIPTION protected so it may be restricted to senior laboratory DESCRIPTION staff if desired. DESCRIPTION The data file is backed-up from time to time on a DESCRIPTION diskette at a pre-definable interval. A reminder is DESCRIPTION provided when the programme is started if the backup DESCRIPTION interval has been exceeded. At the end of each day, all of DESCRIPTION that day's control results can be displayed and printed. DESCRIPTION Thus daily viewing of the control performance is available DESCRIPTION in each section of the laboratory where the software is in DESCRIPTION use. AUTHOR Dr Philippe Marquis RT - ADDRESS Centre hospitalier - 57000 METZ - FRANCE CONTACT philimar@easynet.fr SITE WWW Server at URL http://perso.easynet.fr/~philimar/ OS Win95/98/NT4 LANGUAGE English VOLUME 263 Kb REQUIRES Pentium - 16 Mb RAM COMMENTS Free and unlimited software COMMENTS French version available at the same URL