| Session 1: Quality requirements and quality goals |
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| A review of the Stockholm Consensus on Quality Specifications |
Per Hyltoft Peterse |
| 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/td> |
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 |
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Debate
Is the consensus statement still valid or should it be updated, and if so what part(s) need to be updated? |
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| 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 |
| Adam Uldall Lecture |
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| External Quality Control in medical laboratories: differences with other PT testing programs |
Jean-Claude Libeer |
| Session 3:Standardisation and Harmonisation |
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| The standardization of HbA1c |
Cas Weycamp |
| The problem of the use of different units for the same analyte |
Ulla Tiikkainen |
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Piet Meijer |