Prijavudhi Amarin, Kotivongsa Kamol, Cotivongsa Phusanisa, Pavaro Umpawan
Department of Clinical Chemistry, Faculty of Medical Technology, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10700, Thailand.
Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health. 2002;33 Suppl 2:14-7.
The term 'external quality assessment (EQA)' has been recommended by WHO consultative meeting in 1980. It has been using to run the retrospective and com-parative statistic tests' reliability among the EQA participants of their organizers. EQA schemes in all fields of laboratory pathology should provide objective information as tools to assist laboratory analysts ensuring the test result quality and on the contrary deciding error-eradicated actions, or more or less improving national test performance quality and standard. Scoring assessment has been designed in the EQA schemes to assist monitoring, and encouraging quality and standard of laboratory performance in the long run of consecutive trials. The Faculty of Medical Technology of Mahidol University now as a collaborating WHO:SEARO EQA organizers, has provided wider EQA schemes, servicing participants all around Thailand, including 400 labs in clinical chemistry of EQAC scheme, 150 labs in clinical hormone of EQAH scheme, 200 labs in clinical microscopy of EQAM scheme, and 190 labs in clinical immunology and serology of EQAI schemes. Regular EQA newsletters, and yearly summer-time seminar and training prove to be the essential education tools promoting both laboratory quality and standard intensively.
“外部质量评估（EQA）”这一术语是由世界卫生组织1980年的协商会议推荐使用的。它一直被用于对其组织者的EQA参与者之间回顾性和比较性统计测试的可靠性进行评估。实验室病理学所有领域的EQA计划都应提供客观信息，作为协助实验室分析人员确保测试结果质量的工具，反之则用于确定消除误差的行动，或多或少地提高国家测试性能质量和标准。EQA计划中设计了评分评估，以协助监测，并从长期连续试验的角度鼓励实验室性能的质量和标准。玛希隆大学医学技术学院作为世界卫生组织西太平洋区域办事处的合作EQA组织者，提供了更广泛的EQA计划，为泰国各地的参与者提供服务，包括EQAC计划临床化学领域的400个实验室、EQAH计划临床激素领域的150个实验室、EQAM计划临床显微镜领域的200个实验室以及EQAI计划临床免疫和血清学领域的190个实验室。定期的EQA通讯以及每年夏季的研讨会和培训被证明是大力提升实验室质量和标准的重要教育工具。
