J Lab Med Qual Assur.  2008 Jun;30(1):75-102.

Annual Report on External Quality Assessment in Urinalysis in Korea (2007)

• Kim KD
• Koo SH
• Kim EC
• Kim JM
• Kim JH
• Kim JQ
• Kim HJ
• Moon DS
• Min WK
• Lee SY
• Lee JJ
• Jeon CH
• Cho ME
• Cho SS

Abstract

Three external quality assesment trials which composed of 16 control materials (12 chemical materials and four microscopic photographs of urinary sediment) for interlaboratory quality control assesment in urinalysis were performed with 638, 645, and 662 participants, in each, in the year of 2007. The response rate were 95.5% (638/668), 96.7% (645/667) and 97.1% (662/682), in the first, the second and the third trials, in each. The test items include pH, glucose, protein, ketone, bilirubin, blood, urobilinogen, nitrite, leukocyte esterase, specific gravity and four microscopic photographs of body fluid and 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 increased as 87.5% 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 80.7% (536/662) and the percentage of good performance of these tests was 60.6% to 99.1%.

Keyword

Quality assurance; External quality assessment; Urinalysis and urinary sediment

MeSH Terms

Bilirubin
Body Fluids
Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
Equidae
Glucose
Hydrogen-Ion Concentration
Korea
Leukocytes
Quality Control
Reagent Strips
Specific Gravity
Urinalysis
Urobilinogen
Bilirubin
Carboxylic Ester Hydrolases
Glucose
Reagent Strips
Urobilinogen