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Two batches of lyophilized control serum, LYOPHIL (M.Tech. Diagnostics, Thailand) and VALIDATE (General Diagnostics, USA) were distributed weekly as blind internal quality control for our central clinical chemistry laboratory. The precision of 19 biochemical tests was studied. We found that the routine condition variance (RCV) of most tests was not greater than the RCV claimed by Wilding at al except for the test of chloride and amylase. Chisquare test and Youden plot were used to analyze the two batches of control serum. The results show good correlation for both in and out control except for creatinine and phosphate. Consistency of the biochemical tests in both batches was evaluated by analysis of variance (ANOVA) of sets of consecutive 10-week period means for 1 year. Most of the mean values of each test in LYOPHIL and VALIDATE were not significantly different except those of bilirubin and creatinine (p>0.05).
ABSTRACT
The effect of sunlight and artificial light on serum bilirubin was studied. It was found that serial left in daylight for 15, 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes may lose 29.58, 40.19, 54.66, 68.52 and 70.73 percent of their bilirubin level and lose 5.05, 6.62, 11.67, 17.98 and 21.14 percent when exposed to artificial light respectively.