This is a companion article to the feature, “Peer-Reporting Programs for Lab Quality.”

Many instrument manufacturers and suppliers of quality control materials provide interlaboratory peer-reporting programs for their clients. Following is a sampling of such service providers, with links to their websites.

Audit MicroControls:
www.auditmicro.com/auditor-qc

Bio-Rad Unity Interlaboratory Program:
www.bio-rad.com/en-us/product/unity-interlaboratory-program

Instrumentation Laboratory Accutrak Quality Control Program:
www.instrumentationlaboratory.com/products-services/accutrak.aspx

Quantimetrix Quantrol QC:
https://quantimetrix.com/quantrol-2/quantrol-qc

Randox Acusera Laboratory Quality Control Program:
www.randox.com/acusera-laboratory-quality-control

Siemens Healthineers QC Management:
https://usa.healthcare.siemens.com/services/laboratory-diagnostics/service-and-support/quality-control-management

This is but a sample of the resources available to laboratories. Depending on a laboratory’s affiliations with instrument manufacturers and quality control providers, a lab may be able to select from several different organizations that offer comparable programs.