Sample collection, handling and processing followed the standard methods recommended by APHA and analyzed in quality assured laboratories using appropriate analytical methods and instrumental techniques.
Major physico-chemical parameters were analyzed in quality assured laboratories in Oman using the analytical methods and instrumental techniques shown in Table 1.
This laboratory is a quality assured reference laboratory for the KZN province.
Fasting blood samples were sent to quality assured pathology laboratories (Southern Illawarra Medical Laboratory (a fully owned subsidiary of Sonic Health Care Limited, Wollongong, NSW, Australia) for lipids; and Cardinal Bio-Research Pty Ltd, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, for F2 isoprostanes).
BCSP endoscopists are rigorously quality assured: CTC quality assurance is in development.
It is essential to promptly revise the gonorrhoea treatment guidelines (which the present study provides an evidence base for), improve the gonorrhoea laboratory diagnostics, and implement quality assured surveillance of gonococcal AMR (ideally also treatment failures) in Poland.
It is essential to promptly revise the gonorrhoea treatment guidelines, improve the gonorrhoea laboratory diagnostics, and implement quality assured surveillance of gonococcal AMR (ideally also treatment failures) in Poland.
Participants will have: serum C-peptide below the quality assured limit of detection for the assay and laboratory (<50 pmol/L) with simultaneous exclusion of BH (glucose <4.0 mmol/l) by laboratory plasma glucose assay.
HER2 assessment (IHC and in situ hybridisation) was carried out in laboratories accredited by CPA UK Ltd and quality assured by the UK National External Quality Assurance Scheme.
HER2 assessment by IHC and fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) was carried out as described (Purdie et al, 2010a, 2010b) in laboratories accredited by CPA UK Ltd and quality assured by the UK National External Quality Assurance Scheme.
In India, it becomes difficult to determine the exact magnitude of the problem of drug resistance as majority of the laboratories providing services for diagnosis of TB do not perform cultures of TB and there are only a limited number of laboratories capable of conducting quality assured first and second line drug susceptibility testing (DST).
