Annual Report on External Quality Assessment in Urinalysis in Korea (2007).
- Author:
Kyung Dong KIM
1
;
Sun Hoe KOO
;
Eui Chong KIM
;
Jung Mann KIM
;
Jeong Ho KIM
;
Jin Q KIM
;
Hyun Joon KIM
;
Dae Soo MOON
;
Won Ki MIN
;
Soo Yong LEE
;
Jin Ju LEE
;
Chang Ho JEON
;
Myung Eun CHO
;
Sung Suck CHO
Author Information
1. The Urinalysis & Routine Microscopy Subcommittee, The Korean Association of Quality Assurance for Clinical Laboratory, Seoul, Korea. kkdmd@ynu.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Note
- Keywords:
Quality assurance;
External quality assessment;
Urinalysis and urinary sediment
- MeSH:
Bilirubin;
Body Fluids;
Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases;
Equidae;
Glucose;
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration;
Korea;
Leukocytes;
Quality Control;
Reagent Strips;
Specific Gravity;
Urinalysis;
Urobilinogen
- From:Journal of Laboratory Medicine and Quality Assurance
2008;30(1):75-102
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Three external quality assesment trials which composed of 16 control materials (12 chemical materials and four microscopic photographs of urinary sediment) for interlaboratory quality control assesment in urinalysis were performed with 638, 645, and 662 participants, in each, in the year of 2007. The response rate were 95.5% (638/668), 96.7% (645/667) and 97.1% (662/682), in the first, the second and the third trials, in each. The test items include pH, glucose, protein, ketone, bilirubin, blood, urobilinogen, nitrite, leukocyte esterase, specific gravity and four microscopic photographs of body fluid and urinary sediment. The survey results are summarized as follows: 1. The chemical quality control test in urinalysis revealed generally good concordance. 2. The percentage of using urinalysis analyzer was slightly increased as 87.5% and the distribution of using reagent strip was similar to the previous year. 3. The percentage of response rate of microscopic photographs of urinary sediment was 80.7% (536/662) and the percentage of good performance of these tests was 60.6% to 99.1%.
