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Clinical Chemistry 30: 395-398, 1984;
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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 30, 395-398, Copyright © 1984 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Progress report on a national quality-control survey of triiodothyronine and thyroxin assay

GC Zucchelli, A Pilo, MR Chiesa and MA Piro

In January 1980, a national external quality-control survey was organized to evaluate assays for triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxin (T4). Currently, about 150 laboratories are involved. Each participant has received and assayed 100 quality-control samples during four periods of about six months each. The average analytical performance achieved by the participants in each six-month period was estimated by computing the average between-laboratory agreement (CVT), the overall average bias, and the average laboratory imprecision. During the 2.5 years of the survey, analytical performance has improved for both assays (CVT decreased from 17.0 to 15.7% for T3 and from 13.1 to 12.7% for T4). Analysis of survey results according to the method/kit used (mean kit bias and kit imprecision for the nine kits most used by participants) showed that the analytical reliability of the T4 assay is generally better than that observed for T3, mainly because of the larger systematic differences among T3 kits.




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