Variation in proficiency testing performance by testing site

JAMA

Volumn 279, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 463-467

  Stull, Tina M ^a   Hearn, Thomas L ^a   Hancock, John S ^a   Handsfield, James H ^a   Collins, Carlyn L ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; LABORATORY TEST; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; SATISFACTION; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032506987     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.279.6.463     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA). Pub L No. 100-578, 42 USC 201 (1988).
2. 42 Federal Register 493.803-493.865 (1993).
3. SAS Institute Inc. SAS/STAT, Version 6: User's Guide. 4th ed. Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc; 1989: 851-879.
4. Belk WP, Sunderman FW. A survey of the accuracy of chemical analysis in clinical laboratories. Am J Clin Pathol. 1947;17:853-861. Reprinted in: Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988;112:320-326.
5. Belk WP, Sunderman FW. A survey of the accuracy of chemical analysis in clinical laboratories. Am J Clin Pathol. 1947;17:853-861. Reprinted in: Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988;112:320-326.
6. Sunderman FW. The history of proficiency testing/quality control. Clin Chem. 1992;38:1205-1209.
7. Hanson DJ. Improvements in medical laboratory performance. Postgrad Med. 1969;46:51-56.
8. Lamotte LC. The impact of laboratory improvement programs on laboratory performance: the CLIA 67 experience. Health Lab Sci. 1977;14:213-223.
9. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA). Pub L No. 90-174, 42 USC 216 (1967).
10. Ross JW, Boone DJ. Assessing the effect of mistakes in the total testing process on the quality of patient care. In: Proceedings of the 1989 Institute on Critical Issues in Health Laboratory Practice: Improving the Quality of Health Management Through Clinician and Laboratorian Teamwork. Wilmington, Del: EI DuPont de Nemours Co Inc; 1991:173.
11. Boone DJ, Steindel SJ, Herron R, et al. Transfusion medicine monitoring practices: a study of the College of American Pathologists/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Outcomes Working Group. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1995;119:999-1006.
12. Nutting PA, Main DS, Fischer PM, et al. Problems in laboratory testing in primary care. JAMA. 1996;275:635-639.
13. Cembrowski GS, Vanderlinde RE. Survey of special practices associated with College of American Pathologists proficiency testing in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1988; 112:374-376.
14. Boone DJ, Hansen HJ, Hearn TL, Lewis DS, Dudley D. Laboratory evaluation and assistance efforts: mailed, on-site, and blind proficiency testing surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control. Am J Public Health. 1982;72:1364-1368.
15. Lamotte LC, Guerrant GO, Lewis DS, Hall CT. Comparison of laboratory performance with blind and mail-distributed proficiency testing samples. Public Health Rep. 1977;92:554-560.
16. Jenny RW, Jackson KY. Proficiency test performance as a predictor of accuracy of routine patient testing for theophylline. Clin Chem. 1993;39: 76-81.
17. Schalla WO, Blumer SO, Taylor RN, et al. HIV blind performance evaluation: a method for assessing HIV-antibody testing performance. In: Proceedings of the 1995 Institute: Frontiers in Laboratory Practice Research. Atlanta, Ga: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 1996: Abstract 24.
18. Naito HK, Kwak YS. Matrix effects on proficiency testing materials: impact on accuracy of cholesterol measurements in laboratories in the nation's largest hospital system. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1993; 117:345-351.
19. Ross JW, Myers GL, Gilmore BF, Cooper GR, Naito HR, Eckfeldt J. Matrix effects and the accuracy of cholesterol analysis. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1993;117:393-400.
20. Posner A. Problems formulating method-insensitive proficiency testing materials. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1993;117:422-424.
21. Kaufman HW, Gochman N. College of American Pathologists Conference XXIII on matrix effects and accuracy assessment in clinical chemistry: report of working group on method development. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1993;117:427-428.
22. Steindel SJ, Howanitz PJ, Renner SW, Sarewitz SJ. Short-term Studies of the Laboratory's Role in Quality Care: Laboratory Proficiency Testing Data Analysis and Critique. Northfield, Ill: College of American Pathologists; 1995:1-11.
23. Ehrmeyer SS, Burmeister BJ, Laessig RH, Hassemer DJ. Laboratory performance in a state proficiency testing program: what can a laboratorian take home? J Clin Immunoassay. 1994;17:223-230.
24. Hoeltge GA, Duckworth JK. Review of proficiency testing performance of laboratories accredited by the College of American Pathologists. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1987;111:1011-1014.
25. Lanphear BJ, Burmeister BJ, Ehrmeyer SS, Laessig RH, Hassemer DJ. Review of actual proficiency testing performance under CLIA '67 (March 14, 1990) rules: perspective from the first year's data. Clin Chem. 1992;38:1254-1259.
26. Merritt BR, McHugh RB, Kimball AC, Bauer H. A two-year study of clinical chemistry determinations in Minnesota hospitals. Minn Med. 1965;48: 939-956.
27. Gilbert RK. Progress and analytic goals in clinical chemistry. Am J Clin Pathol. 1975;63(suppl 6): 960-973.
28. Taylor RN, Fulford KM. Assessment of laboratory improvement by the Center for Disease Control Diagnostic Immunology Proficiency Testing Program. J Clin Microbiol. 1981;13:29.
29. Jones RN, Edson DC. Antibiotic susceptibility testing accuracy: review of the College of American Pathologists microbiology survey, 1972-1983. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1985;109:31.
30. Rickman WJ, Monical C, Waxdal MJ. Improved precision in the enumeration and absolute numbers of lymphocyte phenotypes with long-term monthly proficiency testing. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1993;677:53-58.
31. Stanton N. Blood lead proficiency testing: overview of the federally sponsored program in the US. J Int Fed Clin Chem. 1993;5:158-161.
32. Wood DE, Palmer J, Missett P, Whitby JL. Proficiency testing in parasitology: an educational tool to improve laboratory performance. Am J Clin Pathol. 1994;102:490-494.
33. Tholen D, Lawson NS, Cohen T, Gilmore B. Proficiency test performance and experience with College of American Pathologists' programs. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 1995;119:307-311.
34. Hain RF. Proficiency testing in the physician's office laboratory: an ounce of prevention. South Med J. 1972;65:608-610.
35. Crawley R, Belsey R, Brock D, Baer DM. Regulation of physicians' office laboratories: the Idaho experience. JAMA. 1986;255:374-382.
36. Ferris DG, Hamrick HJ, Pollock PG, et al. Physician office laboratory education and training in primary care residency programs. Arch Fam Med. 1995;4:34-39.