Indicators | Values | Performance Status | Total | Chi-square | P-value | |||
Acceptable | Not Acceptable | Ā | Ā | Ā | ||||
IQC Conducted | No | 52 | 38.50% | 83 | 61.50% | 135 | 0.233 | 0.629 |
Yes | 8 | 33.30% | 16 | 66.70% | 24 | Ā | Ā | |
Tester followed SOP | No | 47 | 59.50% | 32 | 40.50% | 79 | 0.513 | 0.474 |
Yes | 52 | 65.00% | 28 | 35.00% | 80 | Ā | Ā | |
Trained on the new algorithm | No | 29 | 58.00% | 21 | 42.00% | 50 | 0.564 | 0.452 |
Yes | 70 | 64.20% | 39 | 35.80% | 109 | Ā | Ā | |
Experience in years | <ā2 | 25 | 61.00% | 16 | 39.00% | 41 | 1.451 | 0.484 |
2ā5 | 47 | 58.80% | 33 | 41.30% | 80 | Ā | Ā | |
>ā5 | 26 | 70.30% | 11 | 29.70% | 37 | Ā | Ā | |
All test kits available at testing site | No | 59 | 61.50% | 37 | 38.50% | 96 | 0.067 | 0.796 |
Yes | 40 | 63.50% | 23 | 36.50% | 63 | Ā | Ā | |
Difficulty of the new algorithm compared with the old one | More difficult | 65 | 61.30% | 41 | 38.70% | 106 | 3.928 | 0.269 |
Comparable with previous one | 14 | 70.00% | 6 | 30.00% | 20 | Ā | Ā | |
Less difficult | 11 | 78.60% | 3 | 21.40% | 14 | Ā | Ā | |
Donāt know | 9 | 47.40% | 10 | 52.60% | 19 | Ā | Ā | |
Participation in EQA(PT) in the last two years | No | 49 | 55.70% | 39 | 44.30% | 88 | 3.634 | 0.057* |
Yes | 50 | 70.40% | 21 | 29.60% | 71 | Ā | Ā | |
Receive supportive supervision from the facilityās lab | No | 52 | 60.50% | 34 | 39.50% | 86 | 0.195 | 0.659 |
Yes | 46 | 63.90% | 26 | 36.10% | 72 | Ā | Ā |