Affiliation:
1. Medical Technology Programs and
2. State Laboratory of Hygiene, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706
Abstract
Abstract
The CLIA’88 classified all clinical laboratory testing as waived, moderate, or high complexity. The eight original waived tests were characterized as simple, accurate, error-free, risk-free, and suitable for home use by nonlaboratory professionals. The subjective nature of the classification process was challenged immediately. The Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee asked the CDC and the Health Care Financing Administration to develop objective criteria that included assessment of performance by field-test and in-house data. We examined the efficacy of the CDC protocol with empirical data from the HemoCue B-Hemoglobin Test System® submission, to assess operator competency, intra-/interoperator and between-site imprecision, and accuracy. Non-laboratory-trained operators demonstrated 2–3% imprecision (40–200 g/L). Accuracy studies yielded a slope of 1.01, an intercept of 3.53 g/L, and r of 1.00 (52–230 g/L). Results met the protocol’s Tonks’ criterion for imprecision (less than one-fourth of the reference range).
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Biochemistry (medical),Clinical Biochemistry
Cited by
2 articles.
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