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Behind the Scenes of EQA – Characteristics, Capabilities, Benefits and Assets of External Quality Assessment (EQA): Part I – EQA in General and EQA Programs in Particular

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Abstract This is the first in a series of five papers that detail the role and substantial impact that external quality assessment (EQA) and their providers‘ services play in ensuring in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) performance quality. The aim is to give readers and users of EQA services an insight into the processes in EQA, explain to them ...
Andreas Bietenbeck, Christoph Buchta, Janne Cadamuro   +2 more
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Behind the Scenes of EQA – Characteristics, Capabilities, Benefits and Assets of External Quality Assessment (EQA): Part II – EQA Cycles

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Abstract Providers of external quality assessment (EQA) programs evaluate data or information obtained and reported by participant laboratories using their routine procedures to examine properties or measurands in samples provided for this purpose.
Peter B Luppa, Christoph Buchta, Wim Coucke   +2 more
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Cervical Cytology EQA – The Northern Experience

Cytopathology, 2001
Cervical cytology EQA – the Northern experience The experience of the Northern region using the 1995 draft National Gynaecological Cervical Cytology External Quality Assurance (EQA) Scheme is given. Over three rounds, 390 staff reporting Cervical Cytology took part, and using a cumulative non‐numeric marking scheme, five participants were deemed ...
P Cross
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Experiences and Challenges for EQA Providers in Assessing the Commutability of Control Materials in Accuracy-Based EQA Programs

Frontiers in Medicine
Mario Thevis, Patricia Kaiser, Ingo Schellenberg   +2 more
exaly   +5 more sources

Advantages of External Quality Assessment-EQA Programs

Haemophilia, 2022
AbstractIntroductionThe first external quality assessment (EQA) in Thrombosis and Haemostasis was elaborated over 20 years ago, and since then, several national and international EQA institutions have been established.AimDisplay the benefits of EQA programs.MethodsThe spectrum of EQA action was evaluated ranges from improving the performance of the ...
Steve Kitchen, Silmara Aparecida de Lima Montalvão, Anna Lowe   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Glucose-EQA

2017
Data from External Quality Assessment schemes for glucose measurements in Germany. Please be aware of commutability issues (EQA samples do not behave exactly as patient samples) when analysing the data. Feel free to contact me (Andreas Bietenbeck) if you have any questions.
Spannagl, Michael, Thaler, Markus A., Petersmann, Astrid, Geilenkeuser, Wolf J., Winter, Christof, Nauck, Matthias, Bietenbeck, Andreas, Luppa, Peter B., Klawonn, Frank   +8 more
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External quality assessment (EQA) for CoaguChek monitors

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2010
SummaryAnticoagulant control facilities are being overwhelmed by requests for monitoring and large numbers of patients are not therefore receiving treatment. Procedures designed for point-of-care testing have therefore been developed, the most popular being the CoaguChek.
J. Jespersen, L. Poller, A. M. van den Besselaar, F. J. van der Meer, G. Palareti, A. Tripodi, C. Shiach, M. Keown, S. Ibrahim   +8 more
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Behind the Scenes of EQA–Characteristics, Capabilities, Benefits and Assets of External Quality Assessment (EQA): Part IV – Benefits for Participant Laboratories

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Abstract The main stakeholders in external quality assessment (EQA) programs are the participants, in whose interests these challenges are ultimately organised. EQA schemes in the medical field contribute to improving the quality of patient care by evaluating the analytical and diagnostic quality of laboratory and point-of-care tests ...
Andreas Bietenbeck, Peter B Luppa, Christoph Buchta   +2 more
exaly   +4 more sources

Advances in microbiology EQA

Accreditation and Quality Assurance, 2002
External quality assessment for microbiology laboratories has seen many changes over the past ten years. EQA is much less focused on the pure analytic process of identifying single organisms submitted in an artificial medium. Samples are more realistic, and can be used to address clinical relevancy.
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