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ReviewClinical chemistry and laboratory medicine2025

Behind the scenes of EQA – characteristics, capabilities, benefits and assets of external quality assessment (EQA): Part I – EQA in general and EQA programs in particular

Christoph Buchta, Rachel Marrington, Barbara De la Salle, Stéphanie Albarède, Tony Badrick, Andreas Bietenbeck, David Bullock, Janne Cadamuro, Vincent Delatour, Enes Dusinovic and 15 more

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Review in Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

25 authors.

Christoph BuchtaAustrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4153-8195
Rachel MarringtonBirmingham Quality (UK NEQAS), Part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1045-8456
Barbara De la SalleUK National External Quality Assessment Scheme (UK NEQAS) for Haematology, Watford, UK.
Stéphanie AlbarèdeCentre Toulousain pour le Contrôle de Qualité en Biologie Clinique (CTCB), Toulouse, France.
Tony BadrickRoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Program, Sydney, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-4846-9134
Andreas BietenbeckMVZ Ärztliche Laboratorien München-Land GmbH, München, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1228-0770
David BullockFormer, Birmingham Quality, UK NEQAS, Birmingham, UK.
Janne CadamuroDepartment of Laboratory Medicine, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-6200-9831
Vincent DelatourLaboratoire National de Métrologie et d'Essais (LNE), Paris, France.
Enes DusinovicUniversity Hospital Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Wolf-Jochen GeilenkeuserFormer, Reference Institute for Bioanalytics, Bonn, Germany.
Gro GidskeThe Norwegian Organization for Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus), Bergen, Norway.
Andrea GriesmacherAustrian Association for Quality Assurance and Standardization of Medical and Diagnostic Tests (ÖQUASTA), Vienna, Austria.
Alexander HaliassosESEAP - Proficiency Testing Scheme for Clinical Laboratories, Athens, Greece.
Derek HolzhauserRoyal College of Pathologists of Australasia Quality Assurance Program, Sydney, Australia.
Jim F HuggettNational Measurement Laboratory, LGC, Teddington, UK.
Serafeim KarathanosESEAP - Proficiency Testing Scheme for Clinical Laboratories, Athens, Greece.
Paola PezzatiSOD Sicurezza e Qualità AOU Careggi, Firenze, Italy.
Sverre SandbergThe Norwegian Organization for Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus), Bergen, Norway.
Aditi SarkarNYP Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, USA.
Anne Elisabeth SolsvikThe Norwegian Organization for Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus), Bergen, Norway.
Michael SpannaglINSTAND e.V. Society for Promoting Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratories, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Marc ThelenFoundation for Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine (SKML), Nijmegen, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0003-1771-669X
Veronica RestelliDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Lucy A PerroneDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Canadian Microbiology Proficiency Testing Program (CMPT), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2185-688X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This is the first in a series of five papers that detail the role and substantial impact that external quality assessment (EQA) and their providers' services play in ensuring

Indexed as

Laboratories, ClinicalQuality Assurance, Health CareHumansQuality Controlexternal quality assessment (EQA)interlaboratory comparisonproficiency testing (PT)

Identifiers

PMID39753377

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