Evaluation of an in-clinic dry chemistry analyzer for canine, equine, and feline plasma samples.

ABSTRACT: Method validation studies characterize the performance of new laboratory methods relative to established methods using quality guidelines in order to define the new method's performance characteristics and to identify differences that could influence data interpretation. We investigated the performance of an in-clinic dry chemistry analyzer (Catalyst One, IDEXX) for measuring 19 routine plasma biochemistry analytes in dogs, cats, and horses. We analyzed 2 levels of quality control material (QCM) in duplicate twice daily for 5 d to determine the coefficient of variation (CV), percent bias, observed total error (TE_obs), and sigma metric (σ) for each analyte at each level of QCM. We analyzed 82 canine, equine, and feline plasma samples with the in-clinic dry chemistry analyzer and

SUBMITTER: Boes KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6505834 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature