Body Fluid Chemistry validation issue.

Interestingly, a sister hospital's laboratory got dinged on a CAP inspection for not validating body fluid chemistry. Now everyone in the system is freaking out about this silly citation. Apparently, body fluids other than CSF in Chemistry do not share the same QC matrix as serum, plasma or CSF so therefore, there is no QC material available commercially to purchase. There is the suggestion now that body fluids cannot be ran in-house due to the fact there is no QC material available to... Body Fluid Chemistry validation issue.
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