Methodological and statistical issues in developing an External Quality Assessment scheme in laboratory medicine: focus on biomarker research.

This article summarizes the key features of an EQA scheme, including designing the study, identifying reference values and control limits for qualitative and quantitative data, and graphically reporting laboratory performance statistics. These steps are illustrated with examples taken from the authors' experience in national and international quality assessment schemes for biomarker research. PMID: 31059865 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: New Biotechnology - Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tags: N Biotechnol Source Type: research