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Um, the samples submitted by the external auditor may be positive or negative. And clinical labs re-validate tests routinely, including drawing samples from our
by killjoywashere 5y ago
Um, the samples submitted by the external auditor may be positive or negative. And clinical labs re-validate tests routinely, including drawing samples from our own lab personnel. But we don't have dummy patients in the electronic medical record tied to perfectly healthy actors coming in to donate 7 mL of blood in a red top.
- a9h74j 5y agoYes, surely for established labs with a culture of competence, care, and conscience, which I am sure is the norm in your parts of the world. I suspect we are framing in terms of two different, almost non-intersecting kinds of institution. My impression is of reports of "startup" regional labs which have scaled immediately in a pandemic, reportedly hired off the street (not people whose specific vocation and training and life-choice is toward lab technician or manager or scientist), and have resulted in anecdotal reports -- all heresay technically -- of swabs being left lying about in quantity, picked up off the floor, etc etc etc. To me these reports -- perhaps false -- do not intersect with the concern with detail in a lab that knows how to prevent cross-contamination when running at very high PCR amplifications. I am not bringing any new evidence to this, so I will leave it with clarifying the focus of my concern. I appreciate your standing up for the integrity and integrity-of-process in established labs. -- s/the lab in question/the startup lab in question/ a level or two up