Experiences and challenges for EQA providers in assessing the commutability of control materials in accuracy-based EQA programs

Laura Vierbaum; Patricia Kaiser; Michael Spannagl; Folker Wenzel; Mario Thevis; Ingo Schellenberg

doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1416642

Experiences and challenges for EQA providers in assessing the commutability of control materials in accuracy-based EQA programs

Front Med (Lausanne). 2024 Aug 1:11:1416642. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1416642. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Laura Vierbaum¹, Patricia Kaiser¹, Michael Spannagl^{1

2}, Folker Wenzel^{1

3}, Mario Thevis⁴, Ingo Schellenberg^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ INSTAND e.V., Society for Promoting Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratories, Duesseldorf, Germany.
² Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany.
³ Faculty of Medical and Life Sciences, Furtwangen University, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Biochemistry/Center for Preventive Doping Research, German Sport University Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
⁵ Institute of Bioanalytical Sciences (IBAS), Center of Life Sciences, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Bernburg, Germany.

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Keywords: commutability; external quality assessment (EQA); measurement accuracy; proficiency testing (PT); reference measurement procedures; traceability; trueness control.

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