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EDITORIAL article

Front. Mol. Biosci.
Sec. Molecular Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Volume 11 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fmolb.2024.1485193
This article is part of the Research Topic Lessons from External Quality Control in Laboratory Medicine: Important Implications for Public Health! View all 14 articles

Editorial: Lessons from External Quality Control in Laboratory Medicine: Important Implications for Public Health!

Provisionally accepted
Nathalie Weiss Nathalie Weiss 1*Ingo Schellenberg Ingo Schellenberg 1,2Klaus-Peter Hunfeld Klaus-Peter Hunfeld 1,3*
  • 1 INSTAND e.V., Duesseldorf, Germany
  • 2 Institute of Bioanalytical Sciences, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany
  • 3 Northwest Medical Centre, Medical Faculty, Academic Teaching Hospital, Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

The final, formatted version of the article will be published soon.

    Keywords: Proficiency testing (PT), external quality assessment (EQA), Public Health, laboratory medicine, longitudinal analysis

    Received: 23 Aug 2024; Accepted: 23 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Weiss, Schellenberg and Hunfeld. 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:
    Nathalie Weiss, INSTAND e.V., Duesseldorf, Germany
    Klaus-Peter Hunfeld, Northwest Medical Centre, Medical Faculty, Academic Teaching Hospital, Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology and Infection Control, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

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