External Quality Assurance Scheme in a National Reference Laboratory for HIV Testing in South India

External quality assurance of HER2 FISH and ISH testing: three years of the UK national external quality assurance scheme.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology/College of American Pathologists guidelines highlighted the critical importance of quality assurance in diagnostic testing for HER2. Unstained formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded human breast carcinoma cell line sections were circulated to scheme participants on 9 occasions. "Reference laboratories" reported results for the HER2/chromosome 17 ratio and HE...

ASVCP quality assurance guidelines: external quality assessment and comparative testing for reference and in-clinic laboratories.

The purpose of this document is to educate providers of veterinary laboratory diagnostic testing in any setting about comparative testing. These guidelines will define, explain, and illustrate the importance of a multi-faceted laboratory quality management program which includes comparative testing. The guidelines will provide suggestions for implementation of such testing, including which samp...

National External Quality Assurance Program Pakistan (NEQAPP) –A Milestone in Proficiency Testing in Pakistan

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to highlight current status and importance of National External Quality Assurance Program Pakistan (NEQAPP). Study Design: Cross sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Chemical Pathology and Endocrinology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) from August to October 2015. METHODS The study data was extracted from electronic ...

A WHO external quality assurance scheme for malaria nucleic acid amplification testing. Meeting report

Implementing quality assurance for laboratory-based and point-of-care HIV testing in Nigeria

The African National Congress sentinel survey in Nigeria has shown a steady decrease in HIV prevalence since 2001, with the following trend: 5.8% in 2001, 5.0% in 2003, 4.4% in 2005, 4.6% in 2008, 4.1% in 2010, and 3.4% in 2013.1,2 Despite this favourable picture, Nigeria has a mixed HIV epidemic and has populations and States where the prevalence is significantly higher than the national estim...