PMID- 23888608
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130826
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 0967-4845 (Print)
IS  - 0967-4845 (Linking)
VI  - 70
IP  - 2
DP  - 2013
TI  - Evaluation of the QBC Star centrifugal three-part differential haematology 
      system.
PG  - 67-74
AB  - The QBC Star haematology system includes the QBC Star centrifugal analytical 
      analyser and the QBC Star tube system. Together, they are capable of producing a 
      haematology profile on venous or capillary whole blood. The aim of this study is 
      to compare full blood count (FBC) including differential white cell count 
      performance between the QBC Star analyser and a gold standard Sysmex XE-2100 
      haematology analyser. The FBC performance was evaluated according to the National 
      Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS) document H20-A. Imprecision, 
      correlation and linearity studies all showed excellent results. Overall, the 
      haemoglobin, haematocrit, white cell count (WCC) and platelet count parameters 
      showed excellent correlation. Mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) 
      results showed poor comparability. The white cell differential parameters showed 
      good correlation within certain clinically significant limits. Imprecision for 
      haemoglobin, haematocrit, WCC, MCHC and platelet count was considered acceptable. 
      The re-read function was found to be stable over the five-hour testing period 
      under the authors' laboratory environmental conditions. The subjective assessment 
      by biomedical scientist staff demonstrated that the system was user friendly, 
      required little maintenance, and no user calibration was required. Staff 
      considered the user manual to be excellent. Overall, the QBC Star appears to be 
      an excellent point-of-care (POC) dry haematology analyser that delivers 
      clinically significant nine-parameter complete blood count and will make a good 
      POC analyser for use in field hospitals, research, screening programmes, GP 
      surgeries as well as in emergency and intensive care units. It is a health and 
      safety-friendly analyser considering the fact that it uses dry haematology 
      reagents instead of the bulky wet reagents that are often associated with liquid 
      biohazard waste.
FAU - Erhabor, O
AU  - Erhabor O
AD  - Blood Sciences, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Royal Bolton Hospital, Bolton 
      NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton UK. n_osaro@yahoo.com
FAU - Richardson, G
AU  - Richardson G
FAU - Mohammed, I
AU  - Mohammed I
FAU - Thornton, C
AU  - Thornton C
FAU - Bark, J
AU  - Bark J
FAU - Hurst, M
AU  - Hurst M
FAU - Hamer, D
AU  - Hamer D
FAU - Kinsella, P
AU  - Kinsella P
LA  - eng
PT  - Evaluation Study
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Br J Biomed Sci
JT  - British journal of biomedical science
JID - 9309208
RN  - 0 (Hemoglobins)
SB  - IM
MH  - Blood Cell Count/*instrumentation/standards
MH  - Calibration
MH  - Equipment Design
MH  - Erythrocyte Indices
MH  - Hematocrit/instrumentation/standards
MH  - Hematology/*instrumentation
MH  - Hemoglobins
MH  - Humans
MH  - Platelet Count/instrumentation/standards
MH  - *Point-of-Care Systems
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
EDAT- 2013/07/31 06:00
MHDA- 2013/08/27 06:00
CRDT- 2013/07/30 06:00
PHST- 2013/07/30 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/07/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/08/27 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1080/09674845.2013.11669938 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Br J Biomed Sci. 2013;70(2):67-74. doi: 10.1080/09674845.2013.11669938.