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External quality assurance of test requesting and test interpretation

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 The ultimate product of the clinical laboratory is not a number, but an advice. To what quality standards should this advice live up to? In external quality assurance for primary health care in Norway, case histories are mailed together with the analytical quality control material. The analytical result of the control material is used in the case history. The feedback reports discuss clinical guidelines as well as the influence of analytical variation on clinical decision-making.

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  1. Laboratory of Clinical Biochemistry Haukeland University Hospital, N-5021 Bergen, Norway e-mail: sverre.sandberg@haukeland.no, Tel.: + 47-55-973111 Fax: + 47-55-973115, , , , , , NO

    S. Sandberg & Geir Thue

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Received: 5 February 1999 · Accepted: 15 March 1999

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Sandberg, S., Thue, G. External quality assurance of test requesting and test interpretation. Accred Qual Assur 4, 414–415 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s007690050398

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