Controle de qualidade externo nos laboratórios de tuberculose do estado de São Paulo, Brasil

Autor: Rodrigo Friozi Povinelli, Susilene Maria Tonelli Nardi, Jaqueline Otero Silva, Gleize Villela, Maria de Lourdes M. Shikama, Leonilda Chiari Galle, Andréa Rezende Leite, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Heloisa da Silveira Paro Pedro, Regina Ruivo Ferro e Silva, Andréa Gobeti Vieira Coelho, Maria Helena Leme Ferraz
Rok vydání: 1941
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Zdroj: Revista do Instituto Adolfo Lutz.
ISSN: 1983-3814
0073-9855
DOI: 10.18241/0073-98552014731626
Popis: The aim of this study was to evaluate the technical quality of acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smears procedure for tuberculosis (TB), which is performed in public and private laboratories (labs) affiliated to the Brazilian Healthcare System, and to report the results of the external quality assessment (EQA) performed in the TB laboratory network of State Sao Paulo. For such purpose, a retrospective descriptive study of EQA was conducted in 198 supervised labs for a two-year period (2009-2010). The correlation among the AFB smears results from the supervised labs and the supervisors was 99.4%; and the percentages of false-positive and false-negative results were 1.9% and 0.4 %, respectively. Comparing the smears performance between the public and private labs, the public labs showed higher quality (p-value
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