Educational Preanalytical Cases Support End-to-end EQA in Bacteriology Laboratories

Labquality's external quality assessment (EQA) service has, since 2017, included educational pre- and post-analytical cases in addition to the traditional sample distributions. This service, named integrated EQA (EQA3), supports the clinical laboratories and point-of-care testing (POCT) sites in meeting the requirements of the ISO 15189 standard, stating that all steps of the laboratory process should be monitored. According to the results of a survey conducted in 2023, the participants of Labquality’s schemes for General bacteriology and Urine culture find the EQA3 service suitable for their needs.