PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - White, L O
TI  - UK NEQAS in antibiotic assays
AID  - 10.1136/jcp.53.11.829
DP  - 2000 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Clinical Pathology
PG  - 829--834
VI  - 53
IP  - 11
4099  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/53/11/829.short
4100  - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/53/11/829.full
SO  - J Clin Pathol2000 Nov 01; 53
AB  - How providers of external quality assessment (EQA) programmes relate to and interact with the monitors and watchdog of clinical laboratory performance in the UK is described. With regard to the quality of antibiotic assays, the changes in methodologies and in performance quality between 1971 (when the UK NEQAS for Antibiotic Assays began) and 1999 is reviewed. How improvements in performance and changes of methodology are related is discussed. The findings and conclusions of two experimental pilot EQA distributions (the teicoplanin assay and serum bactericidal test) are also discussed.