J Clin Pathol Qual Control.
1997 Jun;19(1):33-48.
Annual Report on External Quality Assessment in Hematology in Korea (1996)
- Affiliations
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- 1Diagnostic Hematology Subcommittee, The Korean Association of Quality Assurance for Clinical Pathology, Seoul, Korea.
Abstract
- Four trials of external quality assessment in diagnostic hematology were performed in 1996 with 384 participating laboratories in Korea. We performed quality assessment for complete blood cell count (white blood cell count, hemoglobin, red blood cell count, platelet count), reticulocyte count, white cell differential count, red blood cell morphology. Most laboratories (98.5%) made was of automated cell counter for CBC. The performance of quality assessment to be similar to last year.