Biochemia Medica, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2017.
Editorial
https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2017.003
Special issue on External Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine – current challenges and future trends
Barbara De la Salle
orcid.org/0000-0002-2926-7441
; UK National External Quality Assessment Scheme for Haematology, Watford, UK
Piet Meijer
; ECAT Foundation, Voorschoten, The Netherlands
Annette Thomas
; WEQAS Quality Laboratory, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, Llanishen, Cardiff, UK
Ana-Maria Simundic
orcid.org/0000-0002-2391-5241
; Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital “Sveti Duh”, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Quality assurance in the modern clinical laboratory is evidenced through the complementary process-es of internal quality control and external quality assessment, also known as proficiency testing. By these processes and the achievement of accreditation to international (e.g. ISO) standards, the labor-atory is able to demonstrate its competence to the users of its services, i.e. the clinicians and the pa-tients they care for, who have an expectation that the results of diagnostic testing and monitoring of treatment are correct, comparable and fit-for-purpose within the scope of the service, wherever they are performed.
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Publication date:
15.2.2017.
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