International accreditation standard for medical laboratories SIST EN ISO 15189: 2012 –
Medical laboratories – Requirements for quality and competence requires that the analytical
procedures, instruments and reagent packages used in the laboratories are validated and
verified. The validation of in vitro diagnostics (IVD Medical Device Directive 98/79 / EC) is
carried out by the manufacturer, while we are obliged to perform the verification process before
the start of the analytical procedure and the routine work. By verification procedures, we want
to certify that the characteristics shown during the validation can be successfully repeated in a
practical clinical situation.
The purpose of this work is to present examples of verification procedures on the Advia 120
hematological apparatus carried out in the diagnostic laboratory of the Health Center Šentjur.
We carried out the verification procedures according to the recommendations of the CLSI
standard (Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute). The assessment of measurement
accuracy was performed using the manufacturer's IQC hemogram results for the following
parameters: leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH, MCHC, MPV and
platelets. In the assessment of measurement accuracy, we used results of Slovenian National
External Quality Assessment Scheme (SNEQAS) from year 2018, 2019 and 2020 for the
following hemogram parameters: leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV and
platelets. We entered the obtained results into statistical tables, which are available on the
website of The Association for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine - Measurement
Verification. The results of the measurement precision assessment show good within-run
reproducibility for leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH, MPV and
platelets. Worse reproducibility within the series was detected mainly in the high control of
leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit and MCHC. When evaluating the
measurement accuracy between batches, we do not detect deviations in the comparison of
standard deviations between our results and the manufacturer's data for all hemogram
parameters: leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV, MCH, MCHC, MPV and
platelets. When evaluating the measurement accuracy, we note that we have a deviation
between the EQA results and the mean value of the group, which is not different from zero, we
only have platelets, while we have a deviation for leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin,
hematocrit and MCV. EQA scores and group mean does not differ for leukocytes and platelets,
while it does for erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit and MCV.
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