Real time control procedures for monitoring SMAC analytical performance

A system has been developed in our Hospital Clinical Chemistry Laboratory with the aid of a minicomputer on line with SMAC. The programs are in Basic and comprise management of patient samples and of reference sera, on-line acquisition of analytical data, checks of error reporting and of abnormal result values, real time processing of quality control parameters and data transfer on floppy disk. An efficient and easy monitoring of the chemical procedures and result reliability is achieved together with instrument performance optimization.