The trial period ran from January to June 2012. During this period participants submitted results for one survey each, of the General and Breast diagnostic modules. At the time of writing this report, the General survey has recently closed and results have yet to be analysed.
Initial results from the Breast module: Of the 237 participants enrolled in the module worldwide, 159 participants are Australian (85 laboratories). Seven Australian laboratories did not return results for this survey. Four Australian laboratories fell within the criteria, 5 or more non‐concordant results, for suboptimal performance. However, one of the 10 cases had a high discordant rate and an overall non‐concordance of 87%. It has yet to be decided if this case will be excluded from the scoring and criteria.
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