J Clin Pathol Qual Control.  2000 Jun;22(1):77-92.

Annual Report on External Quality Assessment in Urinalysis in Korea (1999)

• Kim KD
• Koo SH
• Kim EC
• Kim JM
• Kim CH
• Kim JQ
• Kim HJ
• Moon DS
• Min WK
• Yoon K
• Cheung DJ
• Cho SS

Abstract

Two external quality assesment trials which composed of seven control materials (six chemical materials, one parasite material) for interlaboratory quality control assesment in urinalysis and parasitology were performed with 416 participants in the year of 1999. The survey results are summarized as follows: 1. The chemical quality control test in urinalysis revealed generally good concordance. but the result of positive sample of ketone revealed the low concordance rate. The most contributable reason for that seemed to be originated different scanning mechanism and sensitivity of reagent strips. 2. The percentage of using urinalysis analyzer was 82.1% and the distribution of using reagent strip was similar as last year. 3. The performance of the hCG test were good. 4. Parasite egg quality control assessment performed with quitely improved in correct result than last year.

MeSH Terms

Equidae
Korea*
Ovum
Parasites
Parasitology
Quality Control
Reagent Strips
Urinalysis*
Reagent Strips