STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
How to decide whether the reproducibility standard deviation is small enough
Revised: October 30, 2011
Published: September 15, 2011
Knowledge Sharing Articles
The first series of articles focuses on laboratory tests for surface disinfectants. The articles present ideas that Professor Marty Hamilton explored and developed while participating as the biostatistician on interdisciplinary research teams in the CBE and elsewhere.
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2011
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STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Assessing resemblance, repeatability, and reproducibility for quantitative methods
Revised: January 23, 2012
Published: June 23, 2011 -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Importance of checking whether the harvesting and disaggregating steps bias the results of a surface disinfectant test -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
The P/N formula for the log reduction when using a semi-quantitative disinfectant test of type SQ1
2010
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STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
The log reduction (LR) measure of disinfectant efficacy -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Enumerating viable cells by pooling counts for several dilutions -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
How the differences between disinfectant tests and chemical assays affect method evaluation criteria -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Method development phases -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Desirable attributes of a standardized method -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Quantitative, semi-quantitative, qualitative, and alternative methods
Revised October 25, 2011
Published May 27, 2010 -
STANDARDIZED METHODS: Testing Surface Disinfectants
Introduction
