Informatics External Quality Assurance (IEQA) Down Under: evaluation of a pilot implementation

• Published in: Laboratoriumsmedizin Vol. 42; no. 6; pp. 297 - 304
• Main Authors: Hardie, Rae-Anne, Moore, Donna, Holzhauser, Derek, Legg, Michael, Georgiou, Andrew, Badrick, Tony
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin De Gruyter 19.12.2018; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Subjects: Communications systems; Compliance; external quality assurance (EQA); Informatics; Informatics EQA; interoperability conformance testing; Laboratories; laboratory medicine report standardisation; Medicine; messaging; Pathology; patient safety; Physicians; Quality assurance; Quality control; Quality standards; Software development

External quality assurance (EQA) provides ongoing evaluation to verify that laboratory medicine results conform to quality standards expected for patient care. While attention has focused predominantly on test accuracy, the diagnostic phases, consisting of pre- and post-laboratory phases of testing,...