Harmonization of External Quality Assessment Schemes and their role - clinical chemistry and beyond

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¹ Clinical Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 28, Milan 20122, Italy, Phone: +390255032876, Fax: +3902255032219.
² Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Ferruccio Ceriotti et al. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2018.

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. 2018 Sep 25;56(10):1587-1590.

doi: 10.1515/cclm-2018-0265.

¹ Clinical Laboratory, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Via Francesco Sforza 28, Milan 20122, Italy, Phone: +390255032876, Fax: +3902255032219.
² Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

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Keywords: External Quality Assessment Schemes; accreditation; accuracy.

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