External Quality Assessment Does Improve Quality

Michael Noble suspect that most laboratorians understand why they are required to participate in proficiency testing. That does not make it any easier to accept. In over 30 years I don’t recall many technologists or microbiologists telling me that they look forward to receiving and testing our challenge samples. But the important thing is that they do it anyways.

Recently they sent out a survey to our participants asking questions about the relationship between proficiency testing and quality management (see results in the image).

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Proficiency Testing Does Improve Quality

Source:  Making Medical Lab Quality Relevant
Image credits: Quality Doc

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