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Proficiency testing within Eurotransplant [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics
Eurotransplant is responsible for the international allocation of organs between eight countries in Europe. All HLA laboratories affiliated to Eurotransplant must be EFI or ASHI-accredited and must participate in the Eurotransplant external proficiency ...
Yvonne M. Zoet, Sebastiaan Heidt, Marissa J. H. van der Linden-van Oevelen, Geert W. Haasnoot, Frans H. J. Claas   +4 more
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Proficiency Testing Matters [PDF]

Clinical Chemistry, 2013
Far too many laboratories consider proficiency testing just a necessary evil, little more than periodic pass–fail exercises we perform solely to meet regulatory requirements. In addition, too many of us belittle point-of-care (POC)2 testing as a passing fad, a technology so inferior to what we use in our own laboratories that it hardly warrants our ...
G. Horowitz
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Proficiency Testing

Point of Care: The Journal of Near-Patient Testing & Technology, 2002
Objectives Highly sensitive and specific assays for diagnosis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) are imperative. Unfortunately, several commercial and in house NG nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) have shown suboptimal specificity.
C. L. Roy, O. Peuchant, I. L. Hen
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Technical Note: A simple procedure for mimicking tissue samples from CITES controlled animal species for use in DNA proficiency tests

Forensic Science International: Reports, 2021
Proficiency tests are an important practice in forensic laboratories. However, the range of species available for wildlife forensic proficiency testing is currently limited, especially for laboratories in Africa and Asia where CITES-listed species are ...
Ross McEwing, Kyle M. Ewart, Kelly I. Morgan   +2 more
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Improving drinking water quality through proficiency testing—the impact of testing method and accreditation status on Escherichia coli detection by Canadian environmental testing laboratories [PDF]

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Water quality testing is crucial for protecting public health, especially considering the number of boil water advisories annually issued across Canada that impact daily life for residents in affected areas.
Mahfuza Sreya, Md Saiful Alam, Sahibjot Daula, Caleb Lee, Veronica Restelli, Ken Middlebrook, Michael A. Noble, Lucy A. Perrone   +7 more
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Alternative Methods to Current In Vivo Procedures to Address the 3Rs Tenet in Rabies Proficiency Testing [PDF]

Viruses, 2022
Canine rabies is responsible for an estimated 59,000 human deaths every year. In an attempt to reach the ZeroBy30 goal, robust disease surveillance coupled with improved diagnostics play a paramount role in ensuring reliable data and gradually attesting ...
Maira Zorzan, Morgane Gourlaouen, Stefania Leopardi, Paola De Benedictis   +3 more
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COLLABORATIVE PROFICIENCY TESTING IN FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORIES

Теория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2014
The author describes the experience of conducting inter-laboratory testing with theparticipation of the Computer Forensics Laboratory of the Russian Federal Center ofForensic Science.
A. Sidorova
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Implementing Blind Proficiency Testing

Forensic Science International: Synergy, 2023
Michael Salyards
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External proficiency testing exercises: challenges and opportunities [PDF]

Frontiers in Genetics
Ilias Doxiadis, Claudia Lehmann
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Evaluation of the Interlaboratory Comparison Results of the Chemical Composition of Copper Concentrates and Analysis of the Causes of Outliers

Yankuang ceshi, 2021
BACKGROUND Composition analysis of copper concentrate is an important method to determine its quality, especially the analysis of the main element copper.
ZHOU Cheng-ying, LIU Mei-zi, ZHANG Hua, LI Bao-cheng, MAN Xu-guang, LIU Ying, ZANG Mu-wen   +6 more
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