Comparisons of the Efficiency of Different Hospital-level Platform-based Sub-Biobanks in General Hospital

  Objective  The aim of this study was to present a method for evaluating the comprehensive performance of each platform-based sub-Biobanks of a general hospital in order to provide reasonable advice to new Biobankers.

  Methods  We conducted a comprehensive analysis of all these sub-Biobanks from three aspects including specimen incoming, specimen application, and specimen quality as well.We gave different weight of these 3 indicators for comprehensive evaluation(30% for incoming, 30% for application, and 40% for quality).

  Results  A total of 77 sub-Biobanks were included in this study, with 22 project-based Biobanks and 55 reserve Biobanks. There was no significant difference in specimen incoming scores between project-based banks and reserve banks (50.7±30.1 vs. 47.6±29.9, P=0.1614). Project-based Biobanks scored significantly better than reserve Biobanks in specimen application30.3(0, 84.2) vs. 0(0, 31.6), P=0.0327, specimen quality (100.0±0.0 vs. 94.5±22.9, P=0.0444), and comprehensive score (62.5±14.8 vs. 57.9±17.9, P=0.0077).

  Conclusion  Project-based Biobanks' comprehensive performance isbetter than that of reserve Biobanks in platform-based Biobanks of general hospitals.