Lab Improvement #3 : Drift Monitoring Haematology

I conducted a workshop on Drift Monitoring Haematology to all my staff yesterday. Often, they complained to me that the haematology results seemed odd despite IQC done early of the day. And the only to protect ourselves and being more confident of the results are doing the drift monitoring.

Responses from them were good. Questions were asked and staff who had done such practice in HUS shared his experience. Mean baseline and  SD baseline were explained in details and staff were asked to demonstrate of how to calculate the mean baseline and SD baseline from the first five results taken from one patient's sample. And to analyze that WBC, HGB, RBC, PLT, MCV results from drift monitoring do not exceed one SD. Total CV% should be more than 5%.

We will be starting to do the Drift Monitoring Haematology next week.