Analysis of basic status and 15 quality indicators in clinical laboratory of medical institutions in Qinghai province / 中华检验医学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the basic status and the 15 quality indicators in clinical laboratory of medical institutionin in Qinghai provinces, and to understand the quality status.Methods Clinet-EQA system was applied by Qinghai Center for Clinical Laboratories to provide the electronic questionnaire for the clinical laboratory of 106 medical institutions in April 2016 and report related results online.The software of Clinet-EQA system and SPSS13.0 were used for 15 quality indicators for statiatical analysis,13 indicators expressed in rate were further evaluated with sigma scales.Results Totally 102 laboratories returned questionnaires, the rate was of 96.2%.8/13 quality indicators of the overall sigma levels were all >3.The average level of 4 quality indicators such as the sample type error rate was slightly lower than the national.Comparison of the 4 quality indicators of each grade hospital in Qinghai and the same grade hospital in the national, secondary hospital in clinical chemistry, immunology, clinical examination,microbiology in the four major performed better than tertiary hospital.In routine examination, pre-analytical TAT average level of clinical chemistry and immunology was about 50 min,and of blood,urine and stool was 45 min.Pre-analytical TAT in emergency examination for all four disciplines were about 15 min.Intra-analytical TAT for clinical chemistry was the longest,which was 120 min for routine examination and 40 min for emergency examination,respectiely.The average level of the median TAT of blood,urine and stool in routine examination of Intra-analytical in Qinghai was longer than the national.For example of clinical chemistry, routine examination both in pre-analytical TAT and in Intra-analytical TAT was statistically significant in different scales of laboratories,and emergency examination in pre-analytical TAT and in Intra-analytical TAT was not statistically significant.Conclusions 4/13 quality indicators which expressed in rate in the average level in Qinghai province were lower than the national,the average level of the median TAT of blood,urine and stool in routine examination of Intra-analytical in Qinghai was longer than the national.The laboratory should focus on the weak links and continue improvement.