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Managing Deviating EQA Results: A Survey to Assess the Corrective and Preventive Actions of Medical Laboratories Testing for Oncological Biomarkers

Diagnostics, 2020
Laboratories testing predictive biomarkers in lung and colorectal cancer are advised to participate in external quality assessment (EQA) schemes. This study aimed to investigate which corrective actions were taken by laboratories if predetermined ...
Cleo Keppens, Ed Schuuring, Elisabeth MC Dequeker   +2 more
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Performance evaluation of tuberculosis smear microscopists working at rechecking laboratories in Ethiopia

African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2017
Background: Tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health’s 2013–2014 report, the tuberculosis case detection rate was 53.7%, which was below the target of ...
Habtamu Asrat, Abebaw Kebede, Abnet Abebe, Abyot Meaza, Getinet Hailu, Adinew Desale, Andargachew Gashu, Wondwossen Kassa, Tesfaye Mekonnen, Ebisea Abose, Feven Girmachew, Dereje Yenealem, Achamyeleh Mulugeta, Gonfa Ayana, Kassu Desta   +14 more
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External Quality Assessment for Next-Generation Sequencing-Based HIV Drug Resistance Testing: Unique Requirements and Challenges

Viruses, 2020
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the adoption of next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies for HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) testing.
Emma R. Lee, Feng Gao, Paul Sandstrom, Hezhao Ji   +3 more
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External quality assessment of hormone determinations

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2013
Hormone determinations are of central importance to the practice of Clinical Endocrinology, and ensuring their correct use and performance is a multidisciplinary responsibility involving clinicians, laboratory staff, manufacturers of diagnostic systems and healthcare regulatory agencies.
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Inter‐rater agreement of HER2‐low scores between expert breast pathologists and the Visiopharm digital image analysis application (HER2 APP, CE2797)

The Journal of Pathology: Clinical Research
Inter‐observer concordance data for the HER2 category as assessed by a group of 16 specialist breast pathologists on 50 diagnostic core biopsies was compared with that produced by digital image analysis (DIA) using the HER2 APP, CE2797 (VP APP ...
Suzanne Parry, Lila Zabaglo, Abeer M Shaaban, Andrew Dodson   +3 more
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QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN FRANCE

Неперервна професійна освіта: теорія та практика, 2021
The article presents the quality assurance of higher education in France and reveals the system structure peculiar features. The authors characterize the activity of national agencies for external and internal quality assessment.
Natalia Mospan , Alla Durdas
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External quality assessment of laboratories in blood stations of Hebei Province in 2022: a retrospective analysis of HeBEQA project

Zhongguo shuxue zazhi, 2023
Objective To conduct the laboratory quality assessment between 12 blood stations in Hebei province, analyze the results and explore the accuracy and comparability of testing, so as to improve the level of testing ability and quality management.
Ying CHANG, Xiaotong ZHANG, Zixuan ZHANG, Qinghua TIAN, Song LI, Shaoling YANG, Yu KANG, Lixia CHEN, Yuan ZHANG, Xuanhe ZHAO, Lina FENG, Junhua SUN, Yue LIU, Yinhai TANG   +13 more
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External quality assessment of urinary steroid profile analysis [PDF]

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2004
Background: Clinical samples were distributed on 10 occasions to six UK laboratories that perform urinary steroid profile analysis. Urine samples were from normal adult men and women, normal children and neonates. Samples from patients with Cushing's syndrome, virilization, adrenarche, obesity and congenital adrenal hyperplasia (21 and 17-hydroxylase ...
I J, Phillips, E M, Conway, R A, Hodkinson, J W, Honour   +3 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Networking of Public Health Microbiology Laboratories Bolsters Europe’s Defenses against Infectious Diseases

Frontiers in Public Health, 2018
In an era of global health threats caused by epidemics of infectious diseases and rising multidrug resistance, microbiology laboratories provide essential scientific evidence for risk assessment, prevention, and control. Microbiology has been at the core
Barbara Albiger, Joana Revez, Katrin Claire Leitmeyer, Marc J. Struelens   +3 more
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