Privacity policy

Privacy and security policy

Metricare is a Controllab product.

Controllab is concerned in disclosing its privacy and safety policy so that you can better understand what information we collect and how we use it.

To provide a more complete and easy navigation, the site is divided into two distinct areas: Institutional Area and Online System Area. 

Institutional Area

This area aims to provide information about all our services and products. Themes and materials of interest are also disclosed for laboratory follow-up.

Controllab does not give or sell, under any form, any individual information of its users without their express permission.

On Line System Area

In order to further optimize its operations, Controllab offers customers Quality Control programs via the Internet.

The ONLINE System offers simplicity and speed in the transmission of results, lower time limit for return of the evaluations and greater convenience, with information and services at any time.

Controllab respects its clients and is committed to the confidentiality of all its individual results. To protect data, prevent unauthorized access, ensure the correct use of the information and keep it up to date, we have adopted several safety techniques, such as SSL (Secure Socket Layer), which encrypts the information sent from the site to our database. Our encryption key is generated by Let’s Encrypt, the most respected digital certification company on the market.

The results are accessible only to the participant and its disclosure is his responsibility.

The results will only be sent to third parties, such as accreditation or registration agencies, when requested and authorized by the participant.

The participant must designate an individual responsible to be the administrator of the Online System. This administrator will receive a password to register other users, delegate activities related to the program, send results, receive and print reports, and also manage the relationship between Controllab and the lab.

There is also the option to restrict user access to certain areas, providing data privacy that may be convenient to the participating institution.

The participant may change his registration data (password, email, responsible among others), if he deems necessary by clicking on user registration located on the toolbar of the menu of the homepage.

It is important to note that the administrator password allows access to all the data of the participant. Thus, he must ensure his confidentiality in order to avoid exposure of information to unauthorized people.

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PATIENT SAFETY
  • Average time for reporting critical outcomes: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Communication of late critical results: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Discrepancy between cervical biopsy diagnosis and gynecological cytology results (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Errors in patient identification (Clinical Analysis)
  • Errors in performing imaging exams (type, area, laterality, and procedure)
  • Failure in communication of critical results (Clinical Analysis)
  • Failure in communication of critical results (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Failure in communication of critical results (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Failure to communicate critical results: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Rate of immediate adverse reactions to intravenous contrast media in all contrast-enhanced exams (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Rate of immediate adverse reactions to intravenous contrast media in computed tomography (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Rate of intravenous contrast media extravasation in all contrast-enhanced exams (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Rate of intravenous contrast media extravasation in computed tomography (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Registration of Requests with error in patient identification (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Registration of Requests with error in patient identification (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Sample fixation time (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Samples with error in patient identification
  • Samples with less than 2 patient-related identifiers
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
  • Average ticket (Microbiology)
  • Average ticket per patientE
  • Disallowances general and by operator
  • Expenditure with physical area and resources / secondary expenditure / equipment / materials / staff / services / transport
  • Personnel expenses
  • Support laboratory: logistics costs
  • Tests requested: courtesy/operator/private/public network
OPERATION MANAGEMENT
PRODUCTION
  • Audited public: outpatient/hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Citrate tubes collected by patient
  • Collection system: own, third-party and franchise patients
  • EDTA tubes collected per patient
  • Examinations per patient: health insurance/courtesy/private/public
  • Exams per citrate tube
  • Exams per clot activator tube
  • Exams per EDTA tube
  • Exams per lithium heparin tube
  • Exams per patient: overall
  • Exams per serum tube with gel/without gel
  • Exams per sodium fluoride tube
  • Exams per tube
  • Lithium heparin tubes collected by patient
  • Outsourcing
  • Outsourcing of exams (Microbiology)
  • Serum tubes with gel collected by patient
  • Serum tubes without gel collected by patient
  • Sodium fluoride tubes collected per patient
  • Technical production: by equipment and by exam
  • Total of clot activator tubes generated with collection in the period
  • Tubes collected per patient
RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
PEOPLE
  • Absenteeism
  • Accident at work: general
  • Accidents with sharps
  • Hours worked per employee
  • Personal productivity: general/billing/reception/receptionist
  • Personal productivity: own and franchised collector
  • Personal productivity: techniqueE
  • Productivity of pathologists (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Productivity of professionals in Microbiology
  • Rotativity: general/reception
  • Staff productivity (Pathological Anatomy and Cytopathology)
  • Training events
  • Training: enforcement of planned training load
  • Training: external
  • Training: hours of training
  • Training: internal
EQUIPMENT
  • Average availability of analytical equipment (Microbiology) (uptime)
  • Corrective maintenance
  • Mean time between failures: biochemistry equipment (MTBF)
TECHNOLOGY
  • LIS Efficiency: episodes of system crash
  • LIS Efficiency: times of system crash
  • Self-check results efficiency
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT
INDIVIDUAL CUSTOMERS
  • Customer satisfaction: individual
  • Net Promoter Score (NPS)
  • NPS (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Participation in research of Net Promoter Score (NPS)
  • Patient satisfaction with blood collection (NPS blood collection)
  • Received customer manifestations
  • Responded customer manifestations
CORPORATE CUSTOMERS
  • NPS of supported laboratory
  • Support laboratory: complaints from supported laboratories
PHYSICIANS
  • Physician satisfaction
  • Satisfaction of hospital physicians with Microbiology (NPS)
PROCESSES AND OUTCOMES
PRE-ANALYTICAL
  • Blood collection failure
  • Coagulation: coagulated samples
  • Collection error: incorrect proportion of sample/anticoagulant volume
  • Collection error: incorrect sample / incorrect container / insufficient volume
  • Collection in inappropriate time
  • Contamination in automated blood cultures from peripheral blood samples
  • Contamination in midstream urine cultures: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Contamination: samples of microbiology / hemoculture samples / urine culture samples
  • Error in preparation of histological specimens: defects in staining, cutting, and identification (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Exams not registered: hospitalized/non-hospitalized
  • Hemolysis: samples in general and biochemistry area
  • Inappropriate medical requests related to informed clinical issues: hospitalized / non-hospitalized
  • Incorrect exams name: hospitalized / non-hospitalized
  • Medical requests without clinical questions: non-hospitalized
  • Non-intelligible medical requests: hospitalized/non-hospitalized
  • Storage error: incorrect storage before scanning
  • TAT preanalytical by exams
  • Tests incorrectly added and not included in the medical requisition:hospitalized / non-hospitalized
  • Transport error: samples damaged during transport
  • Transport error: samples not received
  • Transport error: samples transported at incorrect temperature
  • Transport error: samples with excessive transport time
  • Unidentified samples
ANALYTICAL
  • Analytical runs with coefficient of variation (CV) above the group (by exam)
  • Analytical runs with standard deviation (SD) above the group (by exam)
  • Coefficient of variation (CV) per exam
  • Coefficient of variation (CV) per exam/equipment
  • Coefficient of variation (CV) per reagent/batch
  • Errors in manual transcription of results
  • Inadequacies in Proficiency Testing (Microbiology)
  • Internal Control (IC): tests with out-of-specification results
  • Positivity of blood cultures: hospitalized patients
  • Proficiency Testing (PT): inadequate performance related to previously treated cause
  • Proficiency Testing (PT): inappropriate performanceE
  • Resistance in blood cultures: Klebsiella resistant to carbapenems, ceftazidime/avibactam, and polymyxin
  • Resistance in surveillance cultures: Klebsiella resistant to carbapenems, ceftazidime/avibactam, and polymyxin
  • Result transcription errors due to LIS failure
  • Standard deviation (SD) per exam
  • Standard deviation (SD) per exam / equipment
  • Standard deviation (SD) per reagent/ batch
  • TAT analytical phase by exams
POST-ANALYTICAL
  • Delays in exam results: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients (Microbiology)
  • Index of interpretive comments in report
  • Report delivery: at home
  • Report delivery: by phone or fax / web / email
  • Report delivery: collected in the laboratory
  • Rescheduling of exam result deadlines (Microbiology)
  • TAT 90 percentile: INR / potassium / troponin / WBC
  • TAT global by exam
  • TAT post-analytical phase by exams
  • Unpublished reports
OUTCOMES
  • Delayed outcomes: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patientsE
  • Delayed outcomes: support laboratory
  • Diverse recollection
  • Diverse recollection: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • General recollectionE
  • General recollection: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • General recollection: support laboratory
  • Incorrect reports (Clinical Analysis)E
  • Incorrect reports (Pathological Anatomy)
  • Incorrect reports (Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics)
  • Incorrect reports: support laboratory
  • Incorrect results released
  • Recollection by accident
  • Recollection by accident: hospitalized / non-hospitalized patients
  • Recollection for analytical reasons: support laboratory
  • Recollection for confirmation
  • Recollection for confirmation: hospitalized / non-hospitalized patients
  • Recollection for inappropriate material
  • Recollection for inappropriate material: hospitalized/non-hospitalized patients
  • Recollection for pre-analytical reasons: support laboratory

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