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Abstract:
Data from 2 years' operation of an External Quality Assessment Scheme covering 14 analytes and with some 60 participants is presented. Following the trimming of discrepant results and statistical 'outliers' (outside the range of +/- 3 SD from the mean), there was generally close agreement between consensus mean values for a specimen analysed on different occasions, by different groups of laboratories, or when using different analytical methods. An improvement in performance, indicated by a reduction in the average inter-laboratory coefficient of variation was found for 11 of the 14 analytes over the 2-year period.
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