scholarly journals Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: a trial organised as part of the United Kingdom national external quality assessment scheme for microbiology.

1988 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
J J Snell ◽  
D F Brown
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Neisseria Gonorrhoeae ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Antimicrobial Susceptibility ◽  
Susceptibility Testing ◽  
External Quality Assessment ◽  
Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing ◽  
External Quality ◽  
External Quality Assessment Scheme ◽  
The United Kingdom

External quality assessment of assays of lead in blood.

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1884-1889 ◽  
Author(s):  
D G Bullock ◽  
N J Smith ◽  
T P Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
External Quality Assessment ◽  
Lead In Blood ◽  
External Quality ◽  
External Quality Assessment Scheme ◽  
Scheme Design ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Consensus Values ◽  
Variance Index

Abstract The operation and results of the United Kingdom External Quality Assessment Scheme for Lead in Blood, which currently has about 140 participants within and outside the U.K. are described. The choice of specimens, scheme design, and scoring of performance are discussed, as is the validity of the consensus values used as a basis for the scoring. There has been a continued improvement in performance as assessed by this program, some of which appears to have been stimulated by the introduction of Variance Index scoring. The relative performance of the methods for assaying lead in blood is also examined.

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