Badrick Tony, Wienholt Louise, Fone Daniel, Holzhauser Derek
The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia.
Pract Lab Med. 2020 Nov;22:e00179. doi: 10.1016/j.plabm.2020.e00179. Epub 2020 Oct 17.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the clinical medicine landscape. The importance of pathology testing has come to the forefront. Patients or potential patients are dealing directly with laboratories as they line up in carparks or testing staff come to the front doors to obtain samples. Laboratories have had to increase capacity to deal with the high volumes of testing driven by the need to identify and quarantine cases. Supporting this effort, External Quality Assurance scheme providers have also needed to produce COVID-19 Proficiency Testing (PT) programs which are fit for purpose. COVID-19 Point of Care testing has become critical frontline testing and has required the PT programs to be simple to use, readily accessible and robust. We describe a COVID-19 PoCT Serology PT program supported by a mobile phone App. The App is described, and the advantages made explicit. This App suggests that the way that PoCT EQA/PT programs may be deployed in the future.
新冠疫情改变了临床医学格局。病理学检测的重要性已成为焦点。患者或潜在患者在停车场排队时直接与实验室打交道，或者检测人员到前门获取样本。由于需要识别和隔离病例，实验室不得不提高检测能力以应对大量检测需求。为支持这一工作，外部质量保证计划提供商也需要制定适用于新冠病毒的能力验证（PT）计划。新冠即时检测已成为关键的一线检测手段，这就要求PT计划使用简便、易于获取且可靠。我们描述了一个由手机应用程序支持的新冠即时检测血清学PT计划。文中介绍了该应用程序，并明确了其优势。此应用程序表明了未来即时检测EQA/PT计划的部署方式。
