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Lab Guidelines & Standards
Guideline Promotes Uniformity in Performance Assessment of Qualitative Tests
Qualitative diagnostic tests have been used since the early days of laboratory medicine for the screening, diagnosis, and management of a variety of diseases. Method evaluation procedures for such tests are diverse, with each laboratory specialty often emphasizing different issues in the experimental design and in the data analysis and interpretation of such studies.1
In January, the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI, formerly NCCLS) published an updated document, User Protocol for Evaluation of Qualitative Test Performance; Approved Guideline—Second Edition (EP12-A2), which provides guidance on how to perform uniform, well-defined studies that can be used to adequately evaluate and describe performance characteristics of qualitative tests.
Read the full article as originally published in LABMEDICINE, May 2008.
“Lab Guidelines & Standards” is a monthly column published in LABMEDICINE. Watch for additional articles from the column in future issues of CLSI eNews.
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