Last updated on 23-8-2019 by Anonymous (not verified)
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Libeer,J.C.Keywords
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