Coronavirus and Laboratory Quality

Coronavirus and Laboratory Quality

ِDr. Michael Allen Noble

I have a longstanding blog "Making Medical Lab Quality Relevant", a place where I get to express my personal thoughts and opinions.

The other day I wrote a piece on the recent challenges with Covid-19 from the perspective of impact of questionable Quality information on decision making.

ISO (as well as CLSI and Health Canada and many others) has had longstanding concerns about information derived from "Laboratory Derived Testing"  which basically describes what we are seeing play out with covid-19.  

This is a test generated in less that a couple weeks, with little Quality Control monitoring that is being used world wide to generate information upon which all sorts of population health and industry and economic decisions are being made.  

 A test result that has no confirmation either by the presence or absence of symptoms or a second test. 

 From a Quality perspective this may be on only "objective"  information that have, but it should be looked at with caution.

I expect that most people working with the assay appreciate the risks associated with the use of testing information, but the media is not sharing that perspective.

As citizens of the world we can acknowledge that there is a problem, but as people with an interest in laboratory Quality ("Qualitologists"?)  I hope we are able to look at what we are seeing on television with a considerable degree of skepticism (doubt or uncertainty).

If you are interested, the blog can be found at:  https://www.medicallaboratoryquality.com/2020/02/coronavirus-from-laboratory-quality.html

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