Biochemia Medica, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2017.
Recenzija, Prikaz slučaja
https://doi.org/10.11613/BM.2017.005
An overview of the European Organization for External Quality Assurance Providers in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM)
Anne Stavelin
; The Norwegian Quality Improvement of Primary Care Laboratories (Noklus), Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, Bergen, Norway
Xavier Albe
; Swiss Center for Quality Control (CSCQ), Chêne-Bourg, Switzerland
Piet Meijer
; External quality Control for Assays and Tests with a focus on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ECAT Foundation), Voorschoten, The Netherlands
Erika Sarkany
; In Vitro Diagnostic Quality Control (QualiCont), Szeged, Hungary
Finlay MacKenzie
; United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service (UK NEQAS) for Clinical Chemistry, Institute of Research and Development, University Hospitals Birmingham, UK
Sažetak
The European Organisation for External Quality Assurance Providers in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM) was founded in 1996 and currently has members from 29 European countries and 6 countries from outside Europe. EQALM provides a forum for co-operation and exchange of knowledge on quality-related matters in laboratory medicine, especially with regard to external quality assessment (EQA) programs in Europe. In addition, EQALM represent the EQA providers in laboratory medicine at European level vis-à-vis political, professional, scientific and other bodies, including patients’ organisations. To this end EQALM promotes activities such as organizing meetings with scientific and practical themes for members and other interested parties, issuing scientific publications, developing EQA projects and representing laboratory medicine EQA activities within other organisations and networks. EQALM is active in scientific and educational activity in different fields such as survey frequency, haematology, haemostasis, microbiology, nomenclature, virtual microscopy, traceability, accreditation, and quality assurance of the total testing process. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the EQALM organisation.
Ključne riječi
laboratory proficiency testing; quality assessment; laboratory medicine
Hrčak ID:
176129
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.2.2017.
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