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. 2008 Mar 19;46(5):1692–1697. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01761-07

FIG. 3.

FIG. 3.

Influence of experience on interpretation scores from 148 participants in a quality assurance exercise assessing the interpretation of photographed rapid HIV assay results. Two measures of experience were considered, and participants' error scores were grouped according to specific experience on the selected rapid HIV assay (a) and general laboratory experience with rapid HIV assays based on location (international and experienced as well as Australia/New Zealand and less experienced) (b). The mean error scores for specific experience (c) and general experience (d) are shown. The differences in error scores (*) between experienced and inexperienced participants for each assay were observed by the Pearson chi-square test for the Abbott Determine HIV-1/2 (P = 0.034), Trinity Biotech Plc Capillus HIV-1/HIV-2 (P = 0.022), and Fujirebio Inc. Serodia-HIV (P = 0.017) assays (a) and by the Kruskal-Wallis test for the Trinity Biotech Plc Uni-Gold HIV (P = 0.001) (P = 0.032 for all five assays [Total]) (b); the significance was set at P < 0.05.