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that's why God made glycerin.  It helps the thermometer go through the port.  Be gentle.  I had to twist it while pushing.

I am still trying to wrap my brain around IQCP but the way I understand it, you don't have to do IQCP as long as you follow the manufacturer's instructions. I think as long as you do QC on the day of use following manufacturer's instructions, you are good to go. So I think BB will be OK, for the most part, with daily QC on our regular reagents as long as we do a negative and a positive for all reagents. (I beefed up my daily QC to add negatives for this part.)  Rare antisera will need QC on day of use but we already do that. If you have automation, as long as you follow their plan, you are OK. We have an Echo and it won't work if QC is not done when it is supposed to be done. I'm glad it shuts down because my people would try to stretch it for a few more hours.
 
I think the things that will need IQCP are the possible odd things such as Lui-Freeze or auto absorption. These are procedures from a book, not a kit with instructions,  so these sorts of tests will need IQCP. If you have a lab created test or something you do that doesn't follow the manufacturer's insert, you will have to do IQCP.
 
I went thru my procedure book and got rid of things that we never do anymore (auto absorption) and came up with a very small list. Lui Freeze is the only thing I can up up with that might need one and we are doing a study to possibly go to acid elution when a physician requests more work on a cord DAT.
 
Just so you know, I listened in on a long webinar from CMS about IQCP on July 15. At the question and answer portion where you write in a question and they answer after a few minutes, I asked specifically if we must do an IQCP for for panels for antibody identification. They had a very short answer. NO. (Whew!) The write up for that webinar should be on the CMS site somewhere. The title was IQCP for CLIA Laboratory Non waived Testing: Workbook Tool. There were workbooks to work thru the process that might be helpful.
 
I really think BB will come off easy on this IQCP process. The department that will be hit hard would be Micro. Evidently, micro tests media once per batch or once per week or something.  So to keep from doing QC everyday of use, they will have to write IQCPs for a ton of procedures.