Behind the scenes of EQA - characteristics, capabilities, benefits and assets of external quality assessment (EQA).

IF 3.8 2区医学 Q1 MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGY

Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine Pub Date : 2025-01-06 DOI:10.1515/cclm-2024-1289

Christoph Buchta, Rachel Marrington, Barbara De la Salle, Stéphanie Albarède, Tony Badrick, Andreas Bietenbeck, David Bullock, Janne Cadamuro, Vincent Delatour, Enes Dusinovic, Wolf-Jochen Geilenkeuser, Gro Gidske, Andrea Griesmacher, Alexander Haliassos, Derek Holzhauser, Jim F Huggett, Serafeim Karathanos, Paola Pezzati, Sverre Sandberg, Aditi Sarkar, Anne Elisabeth Solsvik, Michael Spannagl, Marc Thelen, Veronica Restelli, Lucy A Perrone

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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 what happens before EQA samples are delivered and after examination results are submitted to the provider, how they are assessed, what benefits participants can expect, but also who are stakeholders other than participants and what significance do EQA data and assessment results have for them. This first paper presents the history of EQA, insights into legal, financing and ethical matters, information technology used in EQA, structure and lifecycle of EQA programs, frequency and intensity of challenges, and unique requirements of extra-examination and educational EQA programs.

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EQA的幕后——外部质量评估（EQA）的特征、能力、效益和资产。

这是五篇系列论文中的第一篇，详细介绍了外部质量评估（EQA）及其提供者的服务在确保体外诊断（IVD）性能质量方面所起的作用和重大影响。目的是让EQA服务的读者和用户深入了解EQA的流程，向他们解释在EQA样品交付之前和检查结果提交给提供商之后发生了什么，如何评估它们，参与者可以期望得到什么好处，以及除了参与者之外谁是利益相关者，以及EQA数据和评估结果对他们有什么意义。第一篇论文介绍了EQA的历史，对法律、财务和道德问题的见解，EQA中使用的信息技术，EQA项目的结构和生命周期，挑战的频率和强度，以及课外考试和教育EQA项目的独特要求。

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Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 医学-医学实验技术

CiteScore

11.30

自引率

16.20%

发文量

306

审稿时长

3 months

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