Quality control and audit visit: process & actions.
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Quality control and audit visit:
process & actions
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Why quality control?
• To ensure• the correctness, and• completeness
• of the collected information• To detect problems in measurements
and data management soon after they occur• Ideally so that they can be remedied• Anyway before erroneous results
reported
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What is quality control?
• In case of HES includes• Training of the field work personnel• Setting up the examination site• Data collection process
• Questionnaires• Self-administered• Interviews
• Physical measurements• Biological samples
• Transfer of materials
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Training
• Lectures and practical training• What are
standardized procedures
• How they work• What to do in
unexpected situations
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Monitoring of work• Both field work and
laboratory procedures required monitoring – audit visits
• Person(s) doing the audit visits should• Outsider, not part of
team doing the work
• Well aware of agreed protocols
• Sometimes internal auditor (trainers during the pilot) may be useful
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Audit visit to the field
• How examination room(s) is/are set up
• How equipment are set up
• Tidiness of the examination site
• How daily checking and calibration of the equipment is done• Are equipment
calibrated correctly
• Communication• Within team• With participants
• How informed consent is obtained
• How interviews are conducted
• How measurements are conducted
• Data security• Transfer of materials
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• From each audit visit, a report needs to be prepared• Things requiring
changes/correcting• Positive observations
• Communicated with the field work team
Audit results
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From collected data
• In regular bases, the coordinating office should check• Frequencies of the variables• Means and standard deviation• Outliers• Possible technical notes, other
comments attached to data• Jump rules• Consistency
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Quality control is a learning process