Laboratory Medicine and Quality Assurance

Table. 2.

Proficiency test results for identification of malarial species in the 2020 report of the Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service

Trial Cases Total P1 (Plasmodium falciparum) P2 (Plasmodium malariae) P3 (Plasmodium ovale) P4 (Plasmodium vivax) P5 (Unable to identify the Plasmodium species) Acceptable (%) Intended response
1st HSM-20-01 165 3 8 3 147 4 147 (89.1) P4
HSM-20-03 165 161 1 1 0 2 161 (97.6) P1
2nd HSM-20-04 182 170 1 0 3 2 170 (93.4) P1
HSM-20-05 182 3 2 1 176 0 176 (96.7) P4
HSM-20-06 182 0 29 9 124 3 124 (68.1) P4
Lab Med Qual Assur 2021;43:185~189 https://doi.org/10.15263/jlmqa.2021.43.4.185
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