SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR Laboratory Proficiency Testing Assessment: Introduction, Report Format and Possible Reasons for Discordant
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Private or satellite COVID Molecular Laboratories are supervised under national or Sentinel Clinical
Laboratory of the country. The quality of those laboratories is assayed following proficiency testing assessment. In this assessment, a few positive and a few negative specimens are requested and retested in the sentinel laboratory. The output of the test results is compared. If the result is concordant, there is nothing to do otherwise improvement is mandatory.
Proficiency Testing Assessment of COVID PCR Laboratory format is as follows-
Letter pad of Monitoring Laboratory
Name of Monitoring Laboratory
Proficiency Testing Assessment
For The Detection of SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR
Date— (..Round)-Individual Report
| Laboratory Name | …………………. |
| Sample Dispatched Date | …………….. |
| Sample Received Date | ………………. |
| Sample Processed Date | ……………….. |
| Report Dispatched Date | ……………… |
| Turn Around Time | ………………… |
| Code | Result | Site Result | Remarks |
| ….. | Positive | Positive | Concordant |
| …… | Negative | Negative | Concordant |
| …… | Positive | Negative | Discordant |
| …… | Negative | Negative | Concordant |
| ….. | Positive | Positive | Concordant |
The discordant result may occur due to
Please trouble accordingly for discordant results.
Test Performed by Test verified by
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