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Items for "External Quality Assessment"
Risk management in laboratory medicine: quality assurance programs and professional competence
To guarantee excellent performance and service, the process of identifying and treating error risks must be integrated into the total testing process...
Keywords: External Quality Assessment, laboratory errors, laboratory performance, professional competence, quality indicators
06/2007 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterGuidelines for blood smear preparation and staining procedure for setting up an external quality assessment scheme for blood smear interpretation. Part I: control material
Blood smear analysis is a well known technique in medical laboratories. Clinical relevance of this analysis and its interpretation are very important...
Keywords: blood smears, control samples, External Quality Assessment, Guidelines
08/2004 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterExternal Quality Assessment for biochemical markers of myocardial damage: an Italian experience
In 1999 the Centre of Biomedical Research (CRB) in co-operation with the Italian interdisciplinary and intersociety Working Group on Markers of Myocardial Damage proposed a national external quality assurance scheme that was granted in accordance with the UK Clinical Pathology Accreditation Standards in 2001...
Keywords: cardiac markers, decisional levels, External Quality Assessment, laboratory performance, method performance
12/2004 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterExternal Quality Assessment in The Netherlands: time to introduce commutable survey specimens. Lessons from the Dutch “Calibration 2000” project
The performance of suitable secondary reference material for the use of trueness control of six routinely measured clinical enzymes in the Dutch External Quality Assessment (EQA) scheme is described...
Keywords: calibration, commutability, enzyme activity, External Quality Assessment, reference materials
03/2005 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterComparability of five analytical systems for the determination of triiodothyronine, thyroxine and thyroid-stimulating hormone
Keywords: analytical system, External Quality Assessment, non-parametric test, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxine (T4), triiodothyronine (T3)
11/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterExternal Quality Assessment: an effective tool for Clinical Governance in Laboratory Medicine
The implementation of Clinical Governance will require a redefinition of duties and accountability as a prerequisite to develop and achieve an overall improvement in clinical care through a culture of assessment and monitoring of quality...
Keywords: Clinical Governance, External Quality Assessment, interpretative comments, medical laboratories, quality specifications, unacceptable performance
06/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterGuidelines for setting up an External Quality Assessment Scheme for blood smear interpretation. Part II: survey preparation, statistical evaluation and reporting
Blood smear analysis is a well-known technique in medical laboratories. The clinical relevance of this analysis and its interpretation are very important...
Keywords: blood smears, External Quality Assessment, Guidelines, reporting, statistical evaluation
08/2006 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de GruyterTrueness verification of actual creatinine assays in the European market demonstrates a disappointing variability that needs substantial improvement. An international study in the framework of the EC4 creatinine standardization working group
Keywords: analytical error, bias, calibration, creatinine, External Quality Assessment, glomerular filtration rate, reference methods
09/2008 | Clinical Chemical Laboratory Medicine, Walter de Gruyter