Hi there,
HE QC should be carry out on every slides that are stained, if you are checking
for the staining intensity, this will be carried out using a control slide on
new batch of staining solution, commercial or house made. Batch number should
be recorded, and slides labelled with batch refer
Whether you are using an automated stainer or hand staining, run a control
slide and review before any patient samples are stained. I also suggest that
only start or endpoint QC is not enough and you should consider incorporating
continuous QC/QA at regular intervals for the stain set-up, to en
We have automatic stainers, so after the stainer is set up a slide with a
micro-array is run. This slide is
checked by the histologists and logged in. The next slides run are our rapid
cases. A log sheet is
prepared and handed to the pathologist with the slides and they are graded for
processi