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  You have likely read method performance information with an arbitrary acceptance criterion e.g. plus or minus 10%. This is unfortunate because different measurands differ in the magnitude of error that impacts clinical decision making. Troponin, for example, needs to be measured more accurately and precisely than, let’s say, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). Westgard and colleagues

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) has made valuable recommendations for interference testing in document EP07. We created Excel spreadsheets, designed specifically to follow CLSI recommendations and to help simplify the process.  The cells highlighted in yellow are cells that require the input of information and data. The remaining cells are calculations embedded in

Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) provides important guidance for interference testing.1 Many laboratorians find the CLSI document difficult to follow, which is why we have developed simple instructions and Excel Interference Worksheets to make the interference testing experiment simpler and easier to interpret. CLSI recommends a screening experiment (paired difference testing) to identify assay interference,