Multicenter harmonization of common enzyme results by fresh patient-pool sera.

Abstract:

:A region consisting of 19 clinical laboratories harmonized their calibration of seven common enzymes by using fresh patient-pool sera. One of the laboratories was chosen to act as Regional Reference Laboratory (RRL). This laboratory used internationally accepted (mostly IFCC) methods at 37 degrees C, with an intralaboratory CV < or = 2.5%. First, the reference ranges of the RRL were verified by analysis of a reference population and calculation of the results by a parametric method. Next, all laboratories, including the RRL, received six patient-pool sera and analyzed them at the same time on the same date. Enzyme calibration factors at each laboratory were converted on the basis of the slope, and occasionally the intercept, of regression analysis with the RRL and the individual laboratory. Before harmonization, the interlaboratory CVs varied from 16.9% to 61.6%. After harmonization, CVs decreased to between 5.0% and 9.5%. These results proved to be reproducible over a period of more than a year. Using internationally accepted inaccuracy and imprecision criteria, the achieved interlaboratory CVs permit the use of one set of reference ranges by all participating laboratories. Certified Reference Materials were analyzed, resulting in interlaboratory CVs as low as those achieved with patient-pool sera. These materials can act as commutable reference preparations, except for creatine kinase.

journal_name

Clin Chem

journal_title

Clinical chemistry

authors

Franck PF,Steen G,Lombarts AJ,Souverijn JH,van Wermeskerken RK

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1998-03-01 00:00:00

pages

614-21

issue

3

eissn

0009-9147

issn

1530-8561

journal_volume

44

pub_type

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