Regional Intercountry Workshop on Quality Assurance in Laboratory Medicine (Part 2)

摘要

External Quality Assessment Schemes (EQAS) in bacteriology are well established in Germany since more than twenty years. INSTAND organizes the EQAS together with a scientific society (German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology). Professor Schaal (Bonn) is the head of these schemes. The EQAS are organized according to the regulations of the German Chamber of Physicians. The guidelines were published in 1992. They consist of two parts, one for the general microbiology (common for all fields), and the other for bacteriology (and in the future for virology, parasitology, and mycology). The participation in the EQAS are mandatory for some areas in Germany but will be extended to more.