SAMPLE QUALITY MONITORING FOR COVID-19 RT-PCR ANALYSIS IN LACEN-BA

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Jussara Lagos de Oliveira Silveira
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Mello, Arabela Leal e Silva de, Farias, Elaine Cristina, Oliveira, Patrícia Araújo Beck de, Aragão, Mariana Nossa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Baiana de Saúde Pública (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://rbsp.sesab.ba.gov.br/index.php/rbsp/article/view/3254
• topic: Serviços laboratoriais de saúde pública; infecções por coronavírus; gestão da qualidade; fase pré-analítica; MONITORAMENTO DA QUALIDADE DA AMOSTRA PARA ANÁLISE DE RT-PCR DA COVID-19 NO LACEN/BA – TRABALHO PARA EDIÇÃO TEMÁTICA DE VIGILÂNCIA EM SAÚDE; Servicios laboratoriales de salud pública; infecciones por coronavirus; gestión de la calidad; fase preanalítica; Public health laboratory services; coronavirus infections; quality management; pre-Analytical phase

Abstract The Covid-19 pandemic is one of the greatest health challenges of this century. In December 2019, in China, the etiologic agent was identified as a new coronavirus, named SARS-CoV-2. In Brazil, the first case of Covid-19 was confirmed in February 2020 and, in the following month, the Department of Health of the State of Bahia (Sesab) confirms the first case in the state. The Central Public Health Laboratory Prof. Gonçalo Moniz (Lacen/BA) centralized the laboratory diagnosis to confirm the suspected cases of Covid-19 of the 417 municipalities of the state, using the RT-PCR technique. This study aims at identifying and analyzing the non-conformities of the suspected samples of Covid-19 sent to Lacen-BA. This is a descriptive study whose data were obtained by consulting there reports of samples and exams in disagreement, available in the Laboratory Environment Manager (GAL) system, generated monthly, from April to October,2020. To guarantee the quality of the samples received, acceptance / rejection criteria for the samples were defined and a form for the notification of non-conformities was created, ensuring the traceability of the Covid-19 samples. Daily reports from the Laboratory Environment Manager system based the selection of nine main reasons for non-conformities, among which “requisition canceled by the management of the GAL due to the expiration of the screening period” was present in 72.8% of the records. Process standardization, in the pre-analytical stage, allows working with security, guaranteeing the quality of the sample to be processed and a reliable result within the established period.