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Objective To investigate the modification effect of atmospheric temperature on outpatient visits caused by O3 in Linzhi City. Methods The daily outpatient data, the daily O3 concentration and daily meteorological data (including daily average temperature, average relative humidity, etc.) in Linzhi City from 2018 to 2019 were collected. The distributed lag non-liner-model (DLNM) was used to quantitatively evaluate the impact of O3 in different temperature layers on the risk of outpatient visits. Results At low temperature layers, the cumulative relative risk (CRR) of total outpatient visits and non-injury outpatient visits increased by 53.8%（4.2% -126.9%) and 59.1%（5.8% -139.2%）for every 10 μg/m3 increase of O3 concentration, respectively. The subgroup analysis showed that for every 10 μg/m3 increase of O3 concentration at low temperature, the CRR of patients with circulatory diseases, men, women, and people being 3 in Linzhi City. In general, the cumulative risk increases as the temperature decreases.
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Objective To investigate the reasons of unacceptable external quality assessment results for hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c), and improve quality level.Methods At the end of February 2017, five samples of HbA1c for external quality assessment (EQA) were sent to participated laboratories by post.After testing and reporting results by laboratories , the EQA organizer made statistical analysis and sent results back to laboratories.Meanwhile , messages would be sent to participants those had unacceptable EQA results . Investigating reasons of unacceptable results in 2017 through the EQA System based on web , which was developed by National Central for Clinical Laboratories , calculating the failure rate , analyzing the concrete reasons and combining EQA failure rates with current coefficient of variation .Results The EQA failure rate on HbA1c was 11.2％and reporting rates of reasons for failures was 70.4％(126/179).In the reasons for unacceptable results , technological (27.8％,35/126) and equipment's defects (26.2％,33/126) were the main reason categories , while malfunction ( 12.7％, 16/126 ) and methods defection ( 10.3％, 13/126 ) were the main reason subclass .The unexplainable results after survey account for 8.7％( 11/126 ) .In the group for coefficient of variation ( CV ) over 2％, the percentage of laboratories that had five samples get acceptable results was higher than that of group for CV less than 2％,and the percentage of laboratories that had at most four samples get acceptable results was lower than that of group for CV less than 2％.Conclusions The result of the reasons of unacceptable external quality assessment results for HbA 1c is generally satisfactory.The laboratory, manufacturer and EQA organizers should find and solve the working problems by analyzing EQA data , to improve the testing quality.
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Before performing patient testing with commercial microbial test systems,each laboratory must verify that it can obtain performance specifications comparable to those of the manufacturer.This includes trueness,precision (reproducibility),and reportable range of test results,and verifying that the manufacturer's reference ranges are appropriate for the laboratory's patient population.American Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute has set up a committeeto develop a verification process and a quality assurance program for commercial microbial identification system and antimicrobial susceptibility testing system,in order to provide recommendations for US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).This guidance is applicable to instrument systems widely used in clinical laboratories and can also be used for manual testing of microbiological identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing.The aim of this article is to provide advice for the microbial identification system and antimicrobial susceptibility testing system verification process,based on principles of microbiological identification and antimicrobial susceptibility and CLSI M52 guideline.
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Objective To observe the changes and clinical significance of procalcitonin(PCT) level in children with bacterial pneumonia.Methods The levels of PCT,hs-CRP and WBC were detected in 31 pneumonia children pre and post antibiotic treatment,and the changes were observed.Results The PCT levels of the 31 patients were all increased before treatment.After cured,PCT level of 28 cases returned to normal.But in the 28 normal cases,WBC level increased in 10 cases(35.7％),and hs-CRP level elevated in 4 cases(14.3％).In the other 3 cases,the PCT levels decreased from 5.69ng/mL,1.25ng/mL and 0.83ng/mL at admission to 0.51ng/mL,0.55ng/mL and 0.52ng/mL,respectively.And in these 3 cases,there was one case with the levels of WBC and hs-CRP respectively ascended,in which WBC level descended from 13.1 × 109/L to 12.1 × 109/L and hs-CRP level reduced from 20.92mg/L to 7.38mg/L.Conclusion The sensitivity of the index PCT is the highest at the accurate time phase of bacterial pneumonia,which can guide the reasonable use of antibiotics.