The challenge of producing an EQA for the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
EQA
Phone app
PoCT
Journal
Practical laboratory medicine
ISSN: 2352-5517
Titre abrégé: Pract Lab Med
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101690848
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Nov 2020
Nov 2020
Historique:
received:
28
08
2020
accepted:
15
10
2020
entrez:
26
10
2020
pubmed:
27
10
2020
medline:
27
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the clinical medicine landscape. The importance of pathology testing has come to the forefront. Patients or potential patients are dealing directly with laboratories as they line up in carparks or testing staff come to the front doors to obtain samples. Laboratories have had to increase capacity to deal with the high volumes of testing driven by the need to identify and quarantine cases. Supporting this effort, External Quality Assurance scheme providers have also needed to produce COVID-19 Proficiency Testing (PT) programs which are fit for purpose. COVID-19 Point of Care testing has become critical frontline testing and has required the PT programs to be simple to use, readily accessible and robust. We describe a COVID-19 PoCT Serology PT program supported by a mobile phone App. The App is described, and the advantages made explicit. This App suggests that the way that PoCT EQA/PT programs may be deployed in the future.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33102672
doi: 10.1016/j.plabm.2020.e00179
pii: S2352-5517(20)30142-6
pmc: PMC7568490
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e00179Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Author(s).
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