Analytical Performance Specifications - Tony Badrick

Tony Badrick

CEO of the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs. Also Adjunct Professor School of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Griffith University, Gold Coast; Honorary Associate Professor, National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health ANU College of Health and Medicine and ANU College of Science; Honorary Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Bond University, Gold Coast; Adjunct or Visiting Fellow, Australian Institute for Health Innovation, Macquarie University. 

Analytical Performance Specifications (APS) are used in many areas of laboratory medicine, including EQA interpretation and method evaluation. In this presentation, we will discover the basis of the APS, which are goals for performance based on acceptable imprecision and accuracy. The Milan hierarchy has given us three models of determining the evidence for those goals: patient outcomes, biological variance and expert opinion. We will look at how these APS are selected and used in EQA schemes and method evaluation.