On behalf of the Labquality Days congress, I warmly welcome you to the 41th congress to be held in Helsinki, Finland on February 6-7, 2014. The theme of the congress is Quality in diagnostics.
Scientific program:
Quality in Diagnostics
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Labquality Days & Exhibition
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Thursday 6th of February
EUROPEAN QC UPDATE – WHERE SHOULD WE AIM
10:30-11:30
Thoughts on the perfect EQA
Dr. Cas Weykamp, The Netherlands
Lunch and exhibition
PREANALYTICAL QUALITY – INCIDENTS BEFORE TEST
13:00-13:30
Auditing the Preanalytical Phase: Lessons from 60+ Audits
Associate Director, Medical Affairs, Stephen Church, Germany
13:30-14:00
Options and challenges for decentralized diagnostics
Professor Kim Pettersson, Finland
14:00-14:30
The importance of pre-analytical EQA
MD PhD. Kristin Aakre, Norway
Coffee and exhibition
ANALYTICAL QUALITY – HOW TO ASSESS THE CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS OF LABORATORY
15:00-15:45
The Implementation of POCT Quality Standards Optimizes the Clinical Process Reliability
Professor, Dr. med. Peter Luppa, Germany
15:45-16:15
Ways of monitoring and reducing overall measurement uncertainty in large laboratory organizations
MD PhD. Elvar Theodorsson, Sweden
Friday 7th of February
POSTANALYTICAL QUALITY – HOW TO INTERPRET TEST RESULTS
10:00-10:30
How to interpret results: new oral anticoagulants (NOAC) and coagulation tests
MD PhD. Adjunct professor Lotta Joutsi-Korhonen, Finland
10:30-11:00
Postanalytical aspects in clinical virology
Senior Consultant, MD Jukka Suni, Finland
Lunch and exhibition
QUALITYSYSTEMS IN THE LABORATORY AND EQA – ACCREDITATION BASED ON ISO STANDARDS
12:30-13:00
The Future of Quality Control in Modern Medical Laboratories and ISO 15189
Dr. Oswald Sonntag, Germany
13:00-13:30
The competence of proficiency testing providers and Accreditation
MSc. Tuija Sinervo, Finland
13:30-14:00
Flexible scope accreditation for medical laboratories in clinical biochemistry & immunochemistry
Dipl.-Ing. Jan Balla, Slovakia
14:00-14:30
Title to be announced
Consultant Clinical Biochemist Annette Thomas, United Kingdom
Coffee and exhibition
EQA UPDATE – ROLE FOR BETTER PATIENT SAFETY
15:00-15:30
How reliable is report of laboratory of pathology – Patient’s safety in pathology
MD PhD. Adjunct professor Heikki Aho, Finland
15:30-16:00
When your lab has a non-conformity in EQA, what you should do and what you shouldn’t do
Clinical Consultant Johan Bjerner, Norway
Source: Labquality
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