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Autor:
Roberto Perissi, Annette Thomas, Philip D. P. Taylor, Antonio Menditto, Barry Tylee, Vivienne L. A. James, Beatriz de la Calle, Kees van Putten, Brian Brookman, Michael Koch, Maria Belli, Daniel W. Tholen, Nineta Majcen, Piotr Robouch, Tommy Šlapokas, Tracey Noblett
Publikováno v:
Scopus-Elsevier
A summary of the working group (WG) discussions on proficiency testing (PT) and external quality assessment (EQA) held at the Eurachem Workshop, Rome, 5–7 October 2008 is provided. The eight WG’s covered a range of issues concerned with current p
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
Publikováno v:
Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 13:727-730
The revision of ISO/IEC Guide 43 is well underway by CASCO Working Group 28, with the author as Convener. The ballot on the committee draft was successfully completed in June 2008. The Working Group met in September to resolve the CD comments and to
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 11:400-407
International requirements for PT and EQA state that providers must demonstrate that samples are homogeneous and stable. However, testing for homogeneity and stability can be expensive, use samples that could otherwise serve as quality-control materi
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 10:140-143
A statistical strategy for discouraging collusion in split-level proficiency testing schemes was developed. When the samples are randomly labeled, the difference in the analyte levels in the two samples can be designed to maximize the probability of
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 9:653-656
This paper is intended to briefly discuss several recent initiatives regarding External Quality Assessment (or Proficiency Testing) (PT/EQA) for medical laboratories in various parts of the world. While a brief paper cannot be comprehensive for all r
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 7:146-152
There is evidence to support the notion that interlaboratory comparisons (ILCs) are an effective tool for laboratory improvement. However, despite widespread experience and anecdotal evidence of improvements there are few published studies demonstrat
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
Publikováno v:
Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 16:603-605
A sound system of competent measurements, underpinned by standards and accreditation, is an essential component of the infrastructure of any modern society. Proficiency Testing is an indispensible tool for developing and maintaining this infrastructu
Autor:
Robin A. Silva-Wilkinson, G. Michael DeGraeve, Barbara R. Sheedy, Daniel W. Tholen, Lawrence P. Burkhard
Publikováno v:
Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. 19:2218-2223
An inter- and intralaboratory evaluation was performed on a recently developed sediment screening method designed to detect a wide range of persistent bioaccumulative toxins (PBTs). Ten participating laboratories analyzed sediment samples, and their
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
Publikováno v:
Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 14:635-637
Autor:
Daniel W. Tholen
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Accreditation and Quality Assurance. 3:362-366
There are three stages to evaluating a laboratory's results in an interlaboratory proficiency test: establishing the correct result for the test item, determining an evaluation statistic for the particular result, and establishing an acceptable range