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Juan-Lluis Vives Corrons, Stephanie Albarède, George Flandrin, Silke Heller, Katalin Horvath, Berend Houwen, Gunnar Nordin, Erika Sarkani, Milan Skitek, Marjan Van Blerk, Jean-Claude Libeer

Guidelines for blood smear preparation and staining procedure for setting up an external quality assessment scheme for blood smear interpretation. Part I: control material

Keywords: blood smears, control samples, External Quality Assessment, Guidelines

Blood smear analysis is a well known technique in medical laboratories. Clinical relevance of this analysis and its interpretation are very important. Consequently, monitoring of laboratory performance by an external quality assessment scheme is strongly recommended. Most starting external quality organizers set up a scheme for clinical chemistry. Due to a lack of guidance documents, many organizers are reluctant to offer a hematology scheme. This article aims to be a very practical guidance document for external quality assessment organizers for the set up of blood smear schemes.

Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 1434-6621
Volume: 42, 08/2004
Pages: 922 - 926

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