Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
I came across a very valuable paper in Clinica Chimica Acta on the stability of hematology controls for MCV. (Some of you are already guessing what this is going to be about...)
If you take a hematology control, how many SDs should you expect to see it shift at week 5 of use versus the first week of use? In other words, what is the SDI you should expect?
- 1 SDI
- 2 SDI
- 3 SDI
- 4 SDI
- 5 SDI
- higher than 5 SDI
The answer, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
A paper from Surabaya, Indonesia assessed the performance of an anonymous hematology analyzer. The study used the old CLIA 1992 goals. We updated it with an assessment using CLIA 2025 goals. And then it became clear why this instrument was not named. None of this performance would meet CLIA's standards. Is performance so bad in this analyzer, ...