Table 2. Basic data of participants including the number of laboratories not monitoring haemolysis/icterus/lipemia.
|
Overall (N = 1265) |
Not monitoring HIL (N = 105) |
|
|---|---|---|
| N (%)* | N (%)** | |
| Please state if you work in a: | ||
| Primary Care Laboratory | 228 (18) | 18 (7.9) |
| Hospital laboratory | 496 (39) | 53 (10.7) |
| Laboratory that serves both primary care and hospital (in- and outpatients) | 541 (43) | 34 (6.3) |
| Please state the type of institution you work in: | ||
| Privately owned (for-profit) laboratory | 371 (29) | 20 (5.4) |
| Public (non-profit) laboratory | 894 (71) | 85 (9.5) |
| What analytic department do you mainly work in? | ||
| General Clinical Chemistry | 482 (38) | 18 (3.7) |
| I work in many different analytic departments | 322 (25) | 11 (3.4) |
| Leading/Supervising position (e.g. head of department) | 176 (14) | 5 (2.8) |
| Haematology | 65 (5.1) | 11 (17) |
| Coagulation | 12 (0.9) | 1 (8.3) |
| Toxicology/TDM | 5 (0.4) | 2 (40) |
| Molecular biology | 12 (0.9) | 5 (42) |
| Microbiology | 70 (5.5) | 31 (44) |
| Reception/Distribution of samples | 8 (0.6) | 1 (12) |
| POCT | 4 (0.3) | 1 (25) |
| Quality Management | 57 (4.5) | 3 (5.3) |
| Transfusion | 5 (0.4) | 4 (80) |
| Clinical Pathology | 1 (0.1) | 1 (100) |
| Endocrinology | 7 (0.6) | 2 (29) |
| Serology/Virology | 2 (0.2) | 0 (0) |
| Other | 12 (0.9) | 4 (33) |
| Immunology | 22 (1.7) | 5 (23) |
| No answer | 3 (0.2) | 0 (0) |
| Samples per day | ||
| < 500 | 572 (45) | 78 (14) |
| 500–3000 | 484 (38) | 26 (5.4) |
| 3001–10,000 | 172 (14) | 0 (0) |
| > 10,000 | 37 (2.9) | 1 (2.7) |
| Is your laboratory accredited, certified or similar? (Multiple answers possible) | ||
| ISO 15189 | 582 (46) | 48 (8.2) |
| ISO 17025 | 63 (5.0) | 6 (9.5) |
| ISO 9001 | 239 (19) | 18 (7.5) |
| ISO 22870 | 17 (1.3) | 2 (12) |
| National standard | 216 (17) | 15 (6.9) |
| Ongoing accreditation/certification | 26 (2.1) | 6 (23) |
| Other | 29 (2.3) | 0 (0) |
| No accreditation/certification | 245 (19) | 21 (8.6) |
| TDM – therapeutic drug monitoring. POCT – point of care testing. Only answers from European countries stating to monitor preanalytical errors. *Percentage of total. **Percentage of the respective group. | ||