27 December 2021 5 7K Report

ISO15189 or American guidelines are only rough guidelines for method validation and incomplete.

In general the focus is on (im)precision and trueness, where the latter is often complicated by the absence of a reference method. In addition pre-analytical influence like aging of the sample, storage conditions, aging and quality of reagents is seldom discussed. Finally what good is a method when it cannot be reproduced in other labs. So interlab variation should also be discussed. Some years ago we tried to sum up all the important factors and gave an indication how they could be handled in a white paper (link below). Please comment on that paper or point at alternative and comparable approaches Technical Report Validation and verification of examination procedures in med...

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