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Front. Med.
Sec. Regulatory Science
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1416642
This article is part of the Research Topic Lessons from External Quality Control in Laboratory Medicine: Important Implications for Public Health! View all 12 articles

Experiences and Challenges for EQA Providers in Assessing the Commutability of Control Materials in Accuracy-based EQA Programs

Provisionally accepted
Laura Vierbaum Laura Vierbaum 1*Patricia Kaiser Patricia Kaiser 1Michael Spannagl Michael Spannagl 1,2Folker Wenzel Folker Wenzel 3,4Mario Thevis Mario Thevis 5Ingo Schellenberg Ingo Schellenberg 1,6
  • 1 INSTAND e.V., Duesseldorf, Germany
  • 2 Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
  • 3 INSTAND e.V, Düsseldorf, Germany
  • 4 Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Furtwangen University, Schwenningen, Germany
  • 5 Institut für Biochemie, Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
  • 6 Institute of Bioanalytical Sciences, Center of Life Sciences, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany

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    Keywords: external quality assessment (EQA), Proficiency testing (PT), Commutability, Reference measurement procedures, trueness control, traceability, measurement accuracy

    Received: 24 Apr 2024; Accepted: 22 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Vierbaum, Kaiser, Spannagl, Wenzel, Thevis and Schellenberg. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Laura Vierbaum, INSTAND e.V., Duesseldorf, Germany

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