External Quality Assurance Monitoring

Quality Management Links

The HIV Clinical Trials Network Laboratories (NL) continually improve the quality and efficiency of protocol-related testing under a Total Quality Management (TQM) Program. Oversight of the TQM Program is provided the by the Laboratory Focus Group (LFG).

Quality Assurance (QA) groups support the TQM Program and are comprised of the critical QA partners relevant to each specific quality assurance area, representatives from DAIDS, and representatives from the Networks. Each QA group develops its own guidelines nd standard operating procedures (SOPs) for external quality assurance (EQA) monitoring.

An overview of the TQM Program and the QA groups' guidelines for EQA monitoring, data and communication flow are provided below.

Immunology Quality Assurance - Flow Cytometry