Benefits of the quality control program in immunohematology in transfusion medicine / Beneficios do programa de controle da qualidade em imunohematologia na pratica transfusional
AUTOR(ES)
Laercio de Melo
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2006
RESUMO
The Brazilian External Quality Assessment Program in Immunohematology (BEQAPI) was introduced with the objective of evaluating the quality of diagnosis in Immunohematology. From 1992 to 2003, proficiency tests for ABO grouping, Rh (D, C, c, E, e), K phenotyping, Direct Antiglobulin Testing (DAT), Antibody Screening (AS) and Antibody Identification (AI) were performed. Forty-one evaluations were carried out in 223 institutions. Over the period of 12 years, the program included 8,014 ABO typing, 8,000 RhD typing, 5,193 Rh (C, c, E, e), 5,101 K phenotyping, 7,939 AS, 4,533 AI and 7,912 DATs. Erroneous responses were classified as clerical, technical or undetermined. A substantial proportion of erroneous responses due to clerical errors occurred in ABO typing (76/76 errors), RhD typing (34/58 errors) and Rh phenotyping (50/73 errors). Technical errors occurred predominantly for weak D (91/95 errors), AS (252/301 errors) and AI (321/335 errors). Based on these results, since 1996, participants have received ?Questions and Case Studies? as an incentive for training and education. The results of the present study show an improvement in the performance of participants in the course of the program. We found that a well-organized external proficiency program can contribute to the improvement of quality of testing in Immunohematology
ASSUNTO(S)
anticorpos antigenos antigen antibody
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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