The versatility of external quality assessment for the surveillance of laboratory and in vitro diagnostic performance: SARS-CoV-2 viral genome detection in Austria.

Christoph BuchtaJeremy V CampJovana JovanovicPeter ChibaElisabeth Puchhammer-StöcklMaximilian MayerhoferHelga PlickaAlexander LercherAlexandra M PopaLukas EndlerAndreas BergthalerWolfgang HufBernhard BenkaVincent DelatourMathias M MüllerAndrea GriesmacherStephan W AberleIrene Görzer

Published in: Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine (2021)

Beyond providing certification for participating laboratories, EQA provides the opportunity for participants to evaluate their performance against others so that they may improve operating procedures and test systems. Well-selected EQA samples offer additional inferences to be made about assay sensitivity and reproducibility, which have practical applications.

Keyphrases

sars cov
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
public health
high throughput
loop mediated isothermal amplification
label free
real time pcr
genome wide
gene expression
dna methylation