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Triage® Meters Total Quality Assurance
Quality assurance programs control and monitor analytical methods. The quality control of analytical methods achieves two basic goals:
- Ensures the reagents and instrument are working properly.
- Ensures the procedure was performed correctly.
The Triage® products are unitized Devices that do not require additional reagents. Each Device contains a full complement of reagents that are required to perform the immunoassay.
The Triage Diagnostic Devices have been designed to include multiple assay controls in each Device that monitor the assay procedure and the reagent integrity. These on-board controls are run each time a patient sample is run. The assay controls present a unique and valuable extension to the traditional approach to quality control using external liquid control reagents.
The Triage Diagnostic Devices have been designed to yield long-term reagent stability. In addition, the system provides quality control parameters in three separate and distinct categories:
- Internal Device controls
- Meter electronic controls
- Software controls.
The combination of these quality control features provides more information about the validity of each assay than can be provided by the more traditional methods of reagent and assay procedure validation.
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