title: Quality control of the isolation rate of pathogens in medical microbiology laboratories.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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