IAMQC^® Peer Software

Compare performance to both method and instrument group against the world peer.

• Choose the month to view the results
• View Mean, SD, & CV for your instrument
• Comparisons can be made on both a monthly & cumulative base
• Gives your result an SDI and CVI score

This Group Coordinator report provides a centralised review of all instruments from the moment the customer begins to report data and thus facilitates users meeting accreditation requirements, with respect to the storage, retrieval and statistical analysis of quality control data. This report provides a test by test listing of statistics for the lab and its peer groups for up to 3 levels of control material. The Group Coordinator Report documents all of the relevant data points submitted to IAMQC and automatically provides a statistical analysis in table format.

The Levey Jennings Report displays individual daily QC means for the selected month for a specific analyte. The report can be generated for two or three levels of QC material.
This report also provides a superimposed version of all QC levels at the bottom of each sheet, highlighting any level specific bias. The top of the graph displays a summary of both monthly and cumulative data, including all of the relevant statistics for the laboratory.

The Monthly Summary report is useful for long-term intra-laboratory and inter-laboratory comparisons. For each test and control level this report displays summary statistics for the last 12 individual months. Usual method accuracy and precision is indicated to analyse trends. Monthly SDI and CVI, indicating any shifts from the peer group is shown.

Measurement of Uncertainty has become an important consideration in many laboratories and is referred to by many of the accreditation bodies as a requirement during audits. There are a number of factors which must be considered when calculating uncertainty, including the chosen method, Bias, analytical errors and so on. If uncertainty is quantified it is no longer uncertainty but the confidence interval within which the results fall. Uncertainty should be assessed regularly and attempts made to improve the value. The Measurement of Uncertainty report is generated in MS Excel format from the online IAMQC Peer account.

IAMQC® Peer offers end-users the opportunity to automatically calculate and review their sigma metric performance. The system will automatically calculate imprecision and bias and once the end-user has defined their acceptability criteria (i.e Total Allowable Error), the software will automatically calculate a sigma score for every assay that is tested in the laboratory.

The Exception Notes Report summarizes the laboratory’s tests and analytical methods which differ in performance from its peer group using SDI, CVI and Total Error performance criteria. Flag L did not pass the Laboratory outlier check; Flag P did not pass the Peer outlier check; Flag G did not pass the Gross outlier check.

The Youden Plot Report describes internal laboratory performance against the test system peer and method principle peer using the youden plot design. The youden plot visualizes both bias ad imprecision and can be used to evaluate systematic and/or random error.

The Bias Report is a test by test listing of statistics for the laboratory and its peer groups for up to 3 levels of control material. It documents each instruments performance compared to the world peer group and any selected affiliate group, in a Microsoft Excel file. It displays each instruments Mean, SD, %CV and N of tests for the selected month, along with the SDi, CVi and %Bias comparison with the world peer and affiliate groups. SDi results greater than 2 and CVi results greater than 1 are highlighted on the report to aid in troubleshooting assay performance