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Quality Management of Steroid Hormone Assays

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This chapter describes the principles and practices of quality management of the steroid hormone in clinical laboratory service, and the assessment of the quality of that service by the author’s EQA programme (UK NEQAS for Steroid Hormones).

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Acknowledgments

The UK NEQAS for Steroid Hormones is funded by subscriptions from participants throughout the UK and overseas. Administrative support is provided by the staff of the Wolfson EQA Laboratory, part of the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, directed by Dr. David Bullock. Scientific guidance is provided by the UK NEQAS Special Advisory Group for Immunoassay (Chair Dr. Geoff Beckett). Policy support is given by the UK NEQAS Consortium Executive (chair Mrs Barbara De La Salle). UK NEQAS could not function without the support of the National Blood Service at Birmingham, and the work of the Wolfson Computer Laboratory, University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, directed by Dr. Ian Clarke, in developing and maintaining the EQAS Computer System, which is warmly acknowledged.

It should be noted that Siemens Healthcare Medical Solutions have now absorbed Bayer Diagnostics and the Diagnostic Products Corporation. Therefore all references to method names such as Bayer Centaur and DPC Immulite should be understood now to mean Siemens Centaur and Siemens Immulite.

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    Jonathan G. Middle

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  1. Barts & the London School of, Medicine & Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, E1 2AJ, United Kingdom

    Hugh L. J. Makin

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Middle, J.G. (2010). Quality Management of Steroid Hormone Assays. In: Makin, H., Gower, D. (eds) Steroid Analysis. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1023/b135931_13

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