External quality assurance programmes in medical laboratories |
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Authors: | Jean-Claude Libeer |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Clinical Biology, Scientific Institute of Public Health, Juliette Wytsmanstraat 14, 1050 Brussels, Belgium e-mail: jean-claude.libeer@iph.fgov.be Tel.: +32-2-642 5527 Fax: +32-2-642 5645, BE |
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Abstract: | Medical laboratories have a long tradition of external quality assessment. Starting from pure quality control of laboratory
performances, most schemes have evolved to a powerful tool for improving quality of clinical outcome of results. External
quality assurance in medical laboratories not only includes laboratory performance evaluation, but also evaluation of method
performance, post-marked vigilance, training and help. In the future, the quality of programmes must further be improved by
accreditation of schemes and by using electronic data interchange.
Received: 9 December 2000 Accepted: 14 December 2000 |
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Keywords: | Medical laboratories External quality assurance |
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