The CAP Accreditation Program requires all accredited laboratories performing waived whole blood glucose testing using glucose meters to perform alternative performance assessment. This program can be used to meet alternative performance assessment requirements.

Additional Information

Quality Cross Check is a convenient solution to monitor instrument performance and assess comparability across multiple instruments in your laboratory and to identify potential issues before they affect patient results. These programs are designed to complement your existing proficiency testing (PT) and maintain compliance with the CMS directive regarding PT on multiple instruments.

How It Works:

• Receive three challenges in each of two mailings a year.
• Report up to 30 instruments for each challenge.
• Receive a custom report package that includes peer group comparison and instrument comparability statistics for each reported analyte.

Program Information

• Three 2.0‑mL whole blood specimens
• Report up to 30 instruments

Shipping Schedule

• Shipment A: March 30
• Shipment B: September 8