The concept of external quality assessment super challenges with special consideration of their importance during pandemics
Year: 2025
Type: article
Language: en
Topic: Clinical Laboratory Practices and Quality Control
Authors and affiliations:
raw_author_name: Christoph Buchta
raw_affiliation_strings: Austrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria. Electronic address: christoph.buchta@oequasta.at
raw_author_name: Stephan W Aberle
raw_affiliation_strings: Austrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria; Center for Virology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
raw_author_name: Stéphanie Albarède
raw_affiliation_strings: Centre Toulousain pour le Contrôle de qualité en Biologie clinique (CTCB), Toulouse, France
raw_author_name: Xavier Albe
raw_affiliation_strings: European Organisation for External Quality Assurance Providers in Laboratory Medicine (EQALM) Virtual Microscopy Working Group, Geneva, Switzerland
raw_author_name: Tony Badrick
raw_affiliation_strings: Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Programs (RCPAQAP), St Leonards, NSW, Australia
raw_author_name: Andreas Bietenbeck
raw_affiliation_strings: MVZ Ärztliche Laboratorien München-Land, Poing, Germany
raw_author_name: Vincent Delatour
raw_affiliation_strings: Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais, Paris, France
raw_author_name: Gro Gidske
raw_affiliation_strings: The Norwegian Organization for Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus), Haraldsplass Deaconess Hospital, Bergen, Norway
raw_author_name: Andrea Griesmacher
raw_affiliation_strings: Austrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria; Central Institute of Clinical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
raw_author_name: Jaap J van Hellemond
raw_affiliation_strings: Department of Medical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
raw_author_name: Gitte M Henriksen
raw_affiliation_strings: Danish Institute for External Quality Assurance for Laboratories in the Health Sector (DEKS), Rigshospitalet-Glostrup, Glostrup, Denmark
raw_author_name: Jim F Huggett
raw_affiliation_strings: National Measurement Laboratory, LGC Group, Teddington, UK; School of Biosciences and Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
raw_author_name: István Juhos
raw_affiliation_strings: University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
raw_author_name: Martin Kammel
raw_affiliation_strings: INSTAND eV Society for Promoting Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratories, Düsseldorf, Germany; Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Diagnostik (GBD), Berlin, Germany
raw_author_name: Piet Meijer
raw_affiliation_strings: External quality Control of diagnostic Assays and Tests (ECAT) Foundation, Voorschoten, Netherlands
raw_author_name: Ingo Schellenberg
raw_affiliation_strings: INSTAND eV Society for Promoting Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratories, Düsseldorf, Germany
raw_author_name: Heinz Zeichhardt
raw_affiliation_strings: Institut für Qualitätssicherung in der Virusdiagnostik (IQVD), Berlin, Germany
raw_author_name: Cas Weykamp
raw_affiliation_strings: Queen Beatrix Regional Hospital, Winterswijk, Netherlands