External Quality Assessment Performance And Associated Factors In Selected Governmental Clinical Bacteriology Laboratories In Ethiopia

Background: External quality assessments (EQA) at various level of the health system are very helpful in the identification of possible nonconformance in laboratory. Moreover, it helps develop guidelines for remedial actions to be taken for the improvement of laboratory services with ultimate goal of attaining better health care and patient outcome.rnObjective: To assess selected government clinical bacteriology laboratories external quality assessment performance and associated factors in Ethiopia from July 2018 up to May 2019.rnMethods: A cross sectional study design using both a prospective and retrospective data approach was employed among 16 bacteriology laboratories from July 2018 to May 2019. From One world accuracy PT sample provider they obtained seven panel tests: bacterial identification from sputum, blood, eye swab, wound and CSF; throat swab; urine; genital; N. gonorrhoea identification; gram stain; and AST. In addition, four standard bacterial strains were prepared in house and distributed to participant laboratories. Data were collected using pre-tested structured questionnaire as well as on-site observation. The collected data was cleaned and analyzed using Stata14.2 and exact logistic regression. P

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