title: [Establishment and application of quality assessment program for HIV testing laboratories].
abstract: For helping HIV testing laboratories to improve their testing quality, a national external quality assessment (QA) Program was established and 2 QA survey were carried out in 1991 and 1992. It suggested that the established QA program, especially the scoring system, was suitable for use in our country and could be used to evaluate the technical level of testing laboratories. The results of QA showed that the techniques of the regional HIV testing laboratories had reached a rather high level and could perform screening and confirmatory tests correctly.
authors.affiliation: National HIV Reference Laboratory, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D006678:HIV / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015483:HIV Antibodies / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000592:standards; D011786:Quality Control
chemical_list: D015483:HIV Antibodies