Introduction:

External quality assessment is a procedure that compares the results of several laboratories that analyze the same sample, with the purpose of evaluating analytical performance and assuring quality. Camagüey participated constantly in the external quality assessment program from the beginning until, due to different national and provincial difficulties, said program could not continue. Since then, the province(s quality committee decided to organize assessment alternatives for this purpose. In 2016, a new assessment proposal was applied in clinical laboratories al the primary level of care.

Objective:

To evaluate the quality of the results obtained in the processing of clinical chemistry components in primary level laboratories in the province of Camagüey.

Methods:

A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from September 2017 to July 2018, the universe consisted of all clinical laboratories in the province of Camagüey and a non-probabilistic sample of 14 laboratories was used.

Results:

The analytical performance of cholesterol, blood-glucose level and creatinine was acceptable and triglycerides were unacceptable. A polyclinic in the municipality of Camagüey showed the lowest percentage of precision and accuracy measurement error.

Conclusions:

The cholesterols results showed the best performances and the results obtained were more exact than precise in the evaluated components. The participation percentage of laboratories 04 and 09 was high throughout the duration of the study.

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