J Lab Med Qual Assur.  2009 Jun;31(1):73-98.

Annual Report on External Quality Assessment in Urinalysis in Korea (2008)

• Kim KD
• Koo SH
• Kim EC
• Kim JM
• Kim JH
• Kim JQ
• Moon DS
• Min WK
• Jeon CH
• Park SH
• Koo JI
• Kim MJ
• Bae YC
• Song WH
• Cho KH
• Cho SS

Abstract

Three external quality assesment trials which composed of 16 control materials (12 chemical materials and four sets of microscopic photograph of urinary sediment) for interlaboratory quality control assesment in urinalysis were performed with 699, 718, and 732 participants, in each, in the year of 2008. The response rate were 95.4% (699/733), 96.6% (718/743) and 95.3% (732/767), in the first, the second and the third trials, in each. The test items include pH, glucose, protein, ketone, bilirubin, blood, urobilinogen, nitrite, leukocyte estrase, specific gravity and four microscopic photographs of urinary sediment. The survey results are summarized as follows: 1. The chemical quality control test in urinalysis revealed generally good concordance. 2. The percentage of using urinalysis analyzer was slightly decreased as 83.0% and the distribution of using reagent strip was similar to the previous year. 3. The percentage of response rate of microscopic photographs of urinary sediment was 81.3% (571/732) and the percentage of good performance of these tests ware 32.9% to 80.5%.

Keyword

Quality assurance; External quality assesment; Urinalysis; Urinary sediment

MeSH Terms

Bilirubin
Equidae
Glucose
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Korea
Leukocytes
Quality Control
Reagent Strips
Specific Gravity
Urinalysis
Urobilinogen
Bilirubin
Glucose
Reagent Strips
Urobilinogen