External quality control program in infectious diseases screening at laboratories and blood banks in Latin America: an analysis of the past 5 years
Alfredo Mendrone-Junior, Nanci Salles, Marcia Otani, Adenilson Countinho, Lucas Bassolli de Oliveira Alves, Vanderson Rocha, Mauricio Beltrán-Durán · 2023
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Alfredo Mendrone-Junior and co-authors audit blood screening quality across Latin America in a 2023 paper. Safe transfusion depends on labs catching infections in donated blood, and an external program tests that skill. A coordinating center in São Paulo, backed by a regional health body, sent identical blind panels to participating labs and blood banks.
Each panel held twenty-four samples with known, varied reactivity for the screened infections, covering five years of rounds from 2014 to 2018. Labs ran them like routine donations and returned results for scoring. The five-year analysis shows where screening is reliable and where misses still slip through, guiding training and investment.
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| CREATOR | Alfredo Mendrone-Junior, Nanci Salles, Marcia Otani, Adenilson Countinho, Lucas Bassolli de Oliveira Alves, Vanderson Rocha, Mauricio Beltrán-Durán |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 33 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |