[Quality control of analyses and automation]. / Contrôle de qualité des analyses et automation

Multichannel analysers are becoming more and more usual in biochemistry laboratories. Then, a very severe quality control program is requisite. In Toulouse a three years experiment was carried out on a computer connected twenty four channels Autochemist and an unconnected Technicon SMA 12/60. The traditional quality control from control lyophilized serums is still necessary and useful, mainly at the level of a region. The remaining valuable methods are automatic calibration and statistical controls on frequently tested samples from human polled serum and on results from patients, these being provided through various procedures.