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General EQAnews provides information on quality assurance in the medi-cal laboratory; Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Immunology, Clinical Microbiology, Clinical Parasitology, Clinical Virology, Haematology, Coagulation and Haemostasis etc. EQAnews is issued two times per year in May and September.
SCOPE OF EQAnews EQAnews regards Quality Assur-ance (QA) as a professional activity which improves the quality of service provided by the clinical laboratory. One important aspect of QA is External Quality Assessment (EQA, proficiency testing, interla-boratory comparison). EQAnews sees External Quality Assessment as a rapidly developing scientific and practical field where world wide understanding and support for further development is essential. EQAnews is established to facilitate world wide communication of scientific, organizational and practical aspects of EQA. EQAnews is sponsored by IFCC and owned by the European Committee for External Quality Assurance Programs in Laboratory Medicine, EQALM, which, together with the IFCC, will ensure contact with the various disciplines of Laboratory Medicine. EQAnews collaborates with ECLM and WASP and welcomes co-operation with other scientific organizations.
Subscription The annual fee is 30 Euro,excl 25% VAT covering one calendar year. Members of EQALM receive EQAnews without additional cost to their membership fee. Readers from developing countries receive EQAnews free of charge. Contacts regarding enrolment, in-voices and payments should be made with Susanne Biron, DEKS, 54 M1, Herlev University Hospital, DK-2730 Herlev, Denmark. E-mail: susanne.biron@ deks.dk
Responsibility for issue: EQALM board by: Gunnar Nordin, Chair of
EQALM, E-mail: gunnar.nordin@equalis.org Editor of EQAnews is: Gitte M. Henriksen, DEKS,
54M1, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730 Herlev,
Denmark. E-mail: gitte.m.henriksen@deks.dk Fieldspecific co-editors are: Dr. Michael Noble (clinical micro-biology). Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing, University of British Columbia, Room 328A, Heather Pavilion C, Floor 27, Heather Street, Vancouver, BC V5Z, Canada. E-mail: mnoble@ interchange.ubc.ca Dr. Joergen Kurtzhals (clinical parasitology). Dept. Clin. Microbiol., Statens Serum Institute, Artillerivej 5, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark. E-mail: jku@ssi.dk Dr. Igor Bondarenko (clinical virology). Russian Research Institut for Metrology, 19 Moskovsky Pr., St. Petersburg, 198005 Rus-sia. E-mail: bigor@mail.lanck.net Dr. Nils Joergensen (clinical
biochemistry). DEKS,
54M1, Herlev University Hospital, Herlev Ringvej 75, DK-2730 Herlev,
Denmark. Dr. Jan Moeller (clinical biochemistry). Dept. Clin. Biochem. Skejby Sygehus, Aarhus University Hospital, Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK-8200 Aarhus, Denmark. E-mail: jan@kba.sks.au.dk Dr. Vives Corrons (haematology). Haematology Lab. Dept., Escala 1 B – Planta 3, Hospital Clinic 1 Provincial, C/ Villaroel 170, ES-08036 Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: jlvives@medicina.ub.es Timothy AL Woods, UK
NEQAS for Blood Coagulation, Rutledge Mews, 3 Southbourne Road,
Sheffield,S10 2QN, United Kingdom. E-mail: Tim.Woods@coageqa.org.uk Annette Thomas (language
revision). WEQAS, Manuscripts Manuscripts should be received no later than the first working day of the month prior to the month of issuing EQAnews, preferably in an electronic medium. Editorials Communications in EQAnews which carry no identification of authorship are written by the Editor. Correspondence to EQAnews All correspondence to EQAnews should be send to the Editor. The Editor takes no legal or financial responsibility for errors or misinformation which may occur in EQAnews.
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