External Quality Assessment in blood morphology testing in Mongolia
- VernacularTitle:Цусны түрхэцийн шинжилгээний чанарын гадаад үнэлгээний дүн
- Author:
Bolor A
1
;
Uranbaigali E
2
;
Naran G
3
;
Kawakami H
4
Author Information
1. Medipas Hospital, Orkhon province
2. The Mongolian National University of Medical Sciences
3. The Mongolian Association of Health Laboratorians
4. Sysmex Corporation, Japan
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
blood cells;
blood morphology testing;
external quality assessment
- From:
Health Laboratory
2019;10(2):5-9
- CountryMongolia
- Language:Mongolian
-
Abstract:
Background:We organized the MEQAS (Mongolian External Quality Assessment Scheme) since 2008, on basis of the Cooperation agreement between Ministry of Health and Sysmex Corporation in the establishment
of Hematology external quality control and reference laboratory system.
Therefore, since 2017 year we have set up from 1st to 4th External Quality Assessment (EQA) for blood morphology testing.
Method:This EQA for blood morphology testing included 177 clinical pathologists, 57 technologists, and 36 technicians (270 participants in total). We assessed their ability to distinguish the blood cells on a real-time basis online.
Result, discussion:Out of all participants, the clinical pathologists got marks ranging 70.1%, technologists got 59.0%, technicians got 58.2%. Continual trainings should be organized by different programs for laboratory
specialists. A real-time online method was adopted in an EQA for the first time. This allowed the participants to know their results immediately after completing the assessment.
The overall results of the participants were generated in form of graphs immediately after the completion of the EQA. This allowed for visualization of areas where the percentage of correct answers were low, which were explained extensively during the discussion of answers.
As the results directly reflect the knowledge and skills of each participants, this form of EQA is suggested to be an extremely useful mean for determining the future education platform.
Conclusions:1. The ability of clinical pathologists to distinguish blood cells and to interpretation are unsatisfactory.
2. The ability of biomedical technologists and technicians to distinguish blood cells are unsatisfactory.
- Full text:HL-2019-10(2)-5-9.pdf
