Quality control of the isolation rate of pathogens in medical microbiology laboratories.
Two statistical analyses are suggested to compare the success rates in isolating and identifying pathogenic organisms from specimens achieved by different laboratories participating in a quality control scheme. An example is given in which the analyses are applied to 25 laboratories that received 30 simulated specimens.
D000818:Animals; D001419:Bacteria / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000382:microbiology; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards*; D008433:Mathematics; D008892:Milk / Q000382:microbiology; D011336:Probability; D011786:Quality Control; D014871:Water Microbiology