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Anushka Jayanetti1,2, David Roxby1,2, Tony Badrick1,2
1Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs, Sydney, Australia.
Introduction:
The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs (RCPAQAP) Key Incident Monitoring and Management EQA Program (KIMMS) aims to monitor the laboratory quality system's pre- and post-analytical phases. The purpose of this paper is to describe the most common incidents from 2024.
Materials And Methods:
The KIMMS program has four surveys a year, collecting data from the previous three months, with preanalytical and postanalytical incident reporting of 35 incident types. Participants are asked to capture the number of episodes and the number of incidents per quarter of the year.
Results:
The four 2024 surveys received an average of 111 responses, with 55,329,998 episodes recorded and 1,496,708 incidents identified. The findings from the 2024 program are that the incident "No specimen received" appears to have the highest 80th percentile across the patient sources. The commonest site of error is the Emergency Department (ED), with an 80th percentile overall.
Conclusions:
The KIMMS data provide valuable, regular and reproducible benchmarking data for the pre- and post-analytical phases of the total testing cycle.
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