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  • Title: State of the art in trueness and interlaboratory harmonization for 10 analytes in general clinical chemistry.
    Author: Miller WG, Myers GL, Ashwood ER, Killeen AA, Wang E, Ehlers GW, Hassemer D, Lo SF, Seccombe D, Siekmann L, Thienpont LM, Toth A.
    Journal: Arch Pathol Lab Med; 2008 May; 132(5):838-46. PubMed ID: 18466033.
    Abstract:
    CONTEXT: Harmonization and standardization of results among different clinical laboratories is necessary for clinical practice guidelines to be established. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the state of the art in measuring 10 routine chemistry analytes. DESIGN: A specimen prepared as off-the-clot pooled sera and 4 conventionally prepared specimens were sent to participants in the College of American Pathologists Chemistry Survey. Analyte concentrations were assigned by reference measurement procedures. PARTICIPANTS: Approximately 6000 clinical laboratories. RESULTS: For glucose, iron, potassium, and uric acid, more than 87.5% of peer groups meet the desirable bias goals based on biologic variability criteria. The remaining 6 analytes had less than 52% of peer groups that met the desirable bias criteria. CONCLUSIONS: Routine measurement procedures for some analytes had acceptable traceability to reference systems. Conventionally prepared proficiency testing specimens were not adequately commutable with a fresh frozen specimen to be used to evaluate trueness of methods compared with a reference measurement procedure.
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