Wednesday 01-07-2009

 

 

 

Registration/Welcome

 

EQALM Symposium

Theme: Quality requirements and quality goals

Speaker

 

Opening

Gunnar Nordin

Session 1: Quality requirements and quality goals

 

A review of the Stockholm Consensus on Quality Specifications

Per Hyltoft Petersen

Biological variation, medical needs and professional recommendations as a basis for analytical quality specifications

Sverre Sandberg

The role of accreditation bodies and EQA organizers in the assessment of analytical quality specifications

Ian Mann

Influence of preanalytical factors on the quality of diagnostic laboratory tests.

W.G. Guder

Post-analytical factors and their influence on analytical quality specifications

H.M.J. Goldschmidt

Uncertainty assessment and analytical quality specifications

Paul De Bièvre

 

Session 2: Quality requirements and quality goals – practical consequences

 

Debate:
Is the consensus statement still valid or should it be updated, and if so what part(s) need to be updated?

 

Quality specifications in EQA schemes: from theory to practice

Mario Plebani

PT-program on pre- and post-analytical incident rates (RCPA)

Penny Petinos

Minimal analytical quality specifications – the Spanish experience

Carmen Ricos

An overview of the latest version of the German RiliBÄK

Matthias Nauck

 

Session 3: Standardisation and Harmonistaion

 

The standardization of HbA1c

Cas Weycamp

The problem of the use of different units for the same analyte.

Ulla Tiikkainen

Report of the international INR project

Piet Meijer

Adam Uldall Lecture
External Quality Control in medical laboratories: differences with other PT testing programs

Jean-Claude Libeer