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  • Title: Role of external quality assurance schemes in assessing and improving quality in medical laboratories.
    Author: Libeer JC.
    Journal: Clin Chim Acta; 2001 Jul 20; 309(2):173-7. PubMed ID: 11438297.
    Abstract:
    Medical laboratories have a long tradition of external quality assessment. Starting from pure quality control of laboratory performances, most external quality schemes in Europe evolved into 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-market vigilance, training and help. In the future, the quality of programmes will further be improved by accreditation of schemes international collaboration and by using IT applications.
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