Harmonization status of procalcitonin measurements: what do comparison studies and EQA schemes tell us?

Autor: Gareth J Davies, Vincent Delatour, Gunnar Nordin, Joëlle Vinh, Bernard Poggi, Amandine Bœuf, Ulla Tiikkainen, Philipp Schuetz, Patricia Kaiser, Marc H M Thelen, Jens Pfannkuche, Dagmar Kesseler, Huu-Hien Huynh, Eline A E van der Hagen, Mario Plebani, Tony Badrick, Anja Kessler

Publikováno v: Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, De Gruyter, 2021, 59 (10), pp.1610-1622. ⟨10.1515/cclm-2021-0566⟩

Sepsis represents a global health priority because of its high mortality and morbidity. The key to improving prognosis remains an early diagnosis to initiate appropriate antibiotic treatment. Procalcitonin (PCT) is a recognized biomarker for the earl

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https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2021-0566

Analytical performance specifications for external quality assessment - definitions and descriptions

Autor: Emma Ventura, Joy John Mammen, Dagmar Kesseler, Marc H M Thelen, S. Albarede, Anne Stavelin, Morten Pedersen, Annette Thomas, Patrick J Twomey, Mauro Panteghini, Finlay MacKenzie, Graham R D Jones

Publikováno v: Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. 55(7)

External Quality Assurance (EQA) is vital to ensure acceptable analytical quality in medical laboratories. A key component of an EQA scheme is an analytical performance specification (APS) for each measurand that a laboratory can use to assess the ex

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28593915

Retrospective analysis of 88,429 serum and urine glucose EQA results obtained from professional laboratories and medical offices participating in surveys organized by three European EQA centers between 1996 and 2007

Autor: Pierre-Alain Morandi, Richard Cohen, André Deom, Dagmar Kesseler

Publikováno v: cclm. 48:1255-1262

Background: The aim of this study was to provide inter-laboratory imprecision comparisons of different groups of diagnostic systems as well as a comparison of professional laboratories with medical offices performance on the basis of 88,429 glucose r

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https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm.2010.255

Retrospective analysis of 55,769 HbA1c EQA results obtained from professional laboratories and medical offices participating in surveys organized by two European EQA centers over a nine‐year period

Autor: Pierre-Alain Morandi, Richard Cohen, André Deom, Dagmar Kesseler

External Quality Assessment (EQA) is an essential tool for laboratories to monitor the performances of their analyses. It also allows a comparison of methods and types of laboratories (professional laboratories vs. medical offices). We, therefore, co

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