QAPonline is a dynamic,self reporting online concept. Each participant contributes to the Laboratory/Companies performance. All replies are checked against a Quiz Summary Master File that regulates and checks for non-conformity. The essential flow of management of non-conformity is as follows.
Notes
2.09.1
Quiz Structure
Each Quiz contains one question and all replies are logged to this quiz and includes reply, quiz number, subscriber number, laboratory number, company number (some redundancy here),date, correction request.
Updated: 22/10/2012
2.09.2
Master Quiz
Attached to each quiz is a Quiz Master file that summarises the submission to that quiz. The file contains among other data, the number of submissions, the mean and SD of the raw data for all participants marked as proficient (see later), a trimmed Mean and SD (excludes all replies more than 2SD from raw Mean) and the Mean and SD of all replies by subscribers marked PEER status.
Updated: 22/10/2012
2.09.3
Daily Updating of Master File
The quiz and master file number field identifies which quiz records have received new submissions. The Quiz Master File is updated daily where new replies have been received.
Updated: 22/10/2012
2.09.4
Reference to master File
All reporting and reviewing of performance is linked against the data held in the master file. Therefore all performance information is referenced against a controlled data set that manages valid and conforming submissions and all non-conforming replies are excluded.
Updated: 22/10/2012
2.09.5
Definition of non-conformity.
Samples are defined as non-conforming if they are more than 3SD from the mean and are marked INVALID, thereby being excluded from the calculation of the Mean and SD. Samples between 2 and 3 SD from the mean are included in the raw Mean and SD but excluded from the calculation of the trimmed Mead and SD.
