| Program Name:
AccuTest |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Andrology Chemistry - Matrix-insensitive/ fresh serum Chem, Lipid, NeoBili, Glycated Hb, Cardiac markers, and TDM; Blood gases, POCT, tumor markers Hematology - Full menu; 3-part and 5-part diffs, ESR, Retic, CO-OX Hb fractions Immunology Microbiology - B |
| Frequency: 3 shipments X 5 samples |
| Participants: 2000 - Hospital labs, Independent labs, reference labs, physician`s office labs |
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| Program Name:
AcroMetrix HIV-1 Resistance Proficiency Program |
| Affiliation: Commercial |
| Specialties: Genetics -Molecular Diagnostics |
| Frequency: 2 - 3 times per year with 5 challenges per shipment |
| Participants: Varies with challenge - International - open to any laboratory performing HIV-1 resistance mutation testing |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: This program meets CLIA requirements of 42 CFR sec 493.1709b. Additional molecular diagnostic challenges will be available in 2002. |
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| Program Name:
Aflatoxin analysis performance scheme |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Aflatoxin analysis in grain (corn and groundnut) |
| Frequency: 2 cycles/year |
| Participants: 25 - Government and non-government labs in Thailand |
| Fees: No |
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| Program Name:
AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: HIV-RNA (quantitative) HIV-DNA (qualitative) |
| Frequency: HIV-RNA bi-monthly; HIV-1 DNA: 2x per year |
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| Program Name:
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) |
| Affiliation: Medical Specialty Assn., not-for-profit |
| Specialties: Chemistry, Hematology,Microbiology,Immunology, Immunohematology |
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| Program Name:
American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) |
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| Program Name:
American Proficiency Institute |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Chemistry - General, TDM, Immunoassay, Point of Care Hematology - General, Flow cytometry, Practioner-performed microscopy, Urinalysis with point of care options Microbiology- Bacteriology, Mycology, Parasitology, AFB Smears, Viral Antigens |
| Frequency: 3 test events per year |
| Participants: 10,000 - 90% Physician Office, 10% Hospital |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: Paperless PT option; Free CME through affiliation with ASCP |
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| Program Name:
Analytical Services International Proficiency Testing schemes for immunosuppressive drugs |
| Affiliation: Commercial |
| Specialties: Chemistry - Immunosuppressive drugs - cyclosporin, tacrolimus, mycophenolate, sacrolimus |
| Frequency: Monthly (3 challenges) |
| Participants: Cylosporin program has 424 participants in 34 countries |
| Fees: |
| Notes: Appears that PT schemes are for diagnostic and pharmaceutical industry |
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| Program Name:
Azienda Ospedaliera di Bologna - AOSP EQA |
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| Specialties: |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: Over 800 participating laboratories |
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| Program Name:
Azienda Ospedaliera di Bologna - EQA |
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| Frequency: |
| Participants: Over 800 participating laboratories. |
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| Program Name:
Belgian Official EKE schemes |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Chemistry, Immunoassays, Immunohematology, Immunology, Virology, Microbiology, Parasitology, Flow cytometery, Sperm analysis, Allergens Hematology - Coagulation |
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| Program Name:
Bio-Dev, VEQ Europa |
| Affiliation: Commercial |
| Specialties: Chemistry, Hematology, Coagulation, Microbiology |
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| Program Name:
Bio-Rad EQAS (External Quality Assurance Services) |
| Affiliation: Commercial |
| Specialties: Chemistry - General, TDM, Immunoassay Immunology - specific proteins (immunoassay), tumor markers |
| Frequency: 12 samples per 6 months: 1 sample tested every 2 weeks. (total 24 times per year) |
| Participants: Varies by scheme - Worldwide (over 50 countries) |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: All schemes accredited by Clinical Pathology Accreditation (UK) Ltd. CPA) |
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| Program Name:
Blood Alcohol Proficiency Test |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Blood alcohol analysis |
| Frequency: 2 cycles/year (4 PT samples) |
| Participants: 30 - Government and non-government labs in Thailand |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Blood Lead Proficiency Test |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Blood lead analysis |
| Frequency: 4 cycles/year |
| Participants: 70 - Government and non-government labs in Thailand |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
California Thoracic Society |
| Affiliation: |
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| Program Name:
Canadian Immunology Quality Assessment Program (CIQAP) |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: HIV Immunology |
| Frequency: 6 Time per year |
| Participants: Clinical laboratories from the Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN)/ 50 |
| Fees: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)(NSQAP) Performance Evaluation Program for Less Sensitive anti-HIV-1 |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Anti-HIV-1 testing using dried blood spots |
| Frequency: Quarterly |
| Participants: 49 Laboratories worldwide |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Cholesterol Reference Method Laboratory Network (CRMLN) |
| Affiliation: Government: HHS |
| Specialties: provides bi-monthly analytical performance challenges to Network members |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: 11 CRMLN labs |
| Fees: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Ensuring the Quality of Urinary Iodine Procedures (EQUIP) |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Urinary iodine |
| Frequency: Three times per year |
| Participants: 43 labs representing 30 countries |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Lead and Multi-element Proficiency Program (LAMP) |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Blood lead, mercury, and cadmium analysis |
| Frequency: 4 times per year |
| Participants: Approximately 250 laboratories world wide |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Model Performance Evaluation Program (MPEP) |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: HIV-1 RNA (quantitative); HIV-1 Ab, HIV rapid testintg, Mycobacterium tuberculosis by Nucleic Acid Amplification, Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug susceptibility testing |
| Frequency: 2 times per year |
| Participants: over 1800 laboratories worldwide |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), Lipid Standardization Program |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: cholesterol, triglycerides, and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) |
| Frequency: Quarterly |
| Participants: over 100 laboratories - federally funded and other public health heart-disease epidemiologic and research laboratories. |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Newborn Screening Quality Assurance Program, Division of Laboratory Sciences |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Dried Blood Spot: Newborn Metabolic Screening , Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorders, Organic Acid Disorders, Urea Cycle Disorders, HIV, Sickle Cell Disease and other HemoglobinopathiesSubspecialties: Chemistry - T4, TSH. Hematology - hemoglobinopathies. Immun |
| Frequency: Quartely Sets: five dried -blood specimens |
| Participants: 398- National and International laboratories |
| Fees: |
| Notes: PT program specifically for dried spots and Newborn Screening |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Diabetes Autoantibody Standardization Program (DASP) |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Autoantibodies predictive of type I Diabetes |
| Frequency: 18 months |
| Participants: Approximately 67 laboratories world wide |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: Highly characterized reference materials are prepared to serve as a basis for evaluating new methods and technologies for improving the sensitivity and specificity of predicting and diagnosing type I diabetes. |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EQA Program for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Susceptibility Testing |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Bacteriology - Neisseria gonorrhoeae susceptibility testing |
| Frequency: One to two events per year |
| Participants: U.S.Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Program (GISP) laboratories and international reference laboratories |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Vitamin A Laboratory External Quality Assurance Program (VITAL-EQA) |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Vitamin A, CRP, iron, and Vitamin B |
| Frequency: Twice per year |
| Participants: Approximately 30 laboratories world wide |
| Fees: No |
| Notes: Program in collaboration with Wageningen University, Netherlands |
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| Program Name:
Centers for Disease Control and Prvention (CDC) Laboratory Response Network, Chemical Proficiency Testing Program |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Metabolites and biomarkers of chemical threat agents |
| Frequency: Quarterly |
| Participants: 48 State and County Public Health Laboratories |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
CEQAL |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Andrology Chemistry - General, Lipids (lipid reference methods) Hematology, Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Microscopy, Diagnostic Immunology, Microbiology - Bacteriology, Mycobacteriology, Mycology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: 500 - Canada: mandated in 4 provinces, also some US labs |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
CEQAS:Common External Quality Assessment System in Laboratory Medicine |
| Affiliation: Polish College of Laboratory Medicine: Non profit organization in cooperation with Labquality, Finland |
| Specialties: Clinical chemistry, Hematology, Immunology, coagulation, Microbiology - bacteriology, virology (Labquality menu) |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: 200 - Medical laboratories |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Citomedia Imagens |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Cytology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: digital pictures sent+L23 via internet |
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| Program Name:
CLB Viral Diagnostic Laboratory Viral Quality Control (VQC) |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: HIV-1 RNA (quant); HCV (quant); CMV (quant); Parvovirus B19 (quant); HAV (quant); HSV (quant); Chlamydia trachomatis (quant |
| Frequency: 1X per year |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Clinical Microbiology Proficiency Testing (CMPT) |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Microbiology - Clinical Bacteriology, Gram stain, Mycology, Parasitology, Water Bacteriology |
| Frequency: 4 send-out per year. Variable number of samples per send-out |
| Participants: National, some international mandated and voluntary |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
CNEQAS -Chinese National External Quality Assessment Schemes |
| Affiliation: Government |
| Specialties: Chemistry - Basic, Enzymes, Lipids, Dry Chemistry, Endocrine, Caredic markers, Tumor markers, Special Protein, Neonatal Screening, Urinalysis Hematology- Basic, Coagulation, Flow Cytometry, Microbiology |
| Frequency: 2 to 3 times per year, varies by specialty and subspecialty |
| Participants: National, open voluntary |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: accredited to ISO Guide 25 |
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| Program Name:
College of American Pathologists - CAP Surveys |
| Affiliation: Organization: College of American Pathologists |
| Specialties: Immunohematology Microbiology - Chlamydia trachomatis; Neisseria gonorrhoeae; HCV-RNA (quant); HIV-1 RNA (Quant); ID panel: B. burgdorferi, CMV,HSV, HCV genotping, HCV qual, HIV-1 genotyping, HPV, mecA, molecular typing-bacterial, Mtb Cytology- Genetics - |
| Frequency: 2 to 3 times per year |
| Participants: |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
College of American Pathologists - Excel |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Hematology- Basic, Coagulation, Immunohematology |
| Frequency: 6 - 12 challenges per year depending on specialty |
| Participants: 239 (public and independent) |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Limited Survey |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Immunology - Inf. Mono., Unirne, pregnancy, H. pylori |
| Frequency: 3 times per year |
| Participants: 950 - POL's performing CLIA Waived Tests |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Toxicology |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Alcohol, Drugs, EP, Lead |
| Frequency: 3 times per year |
| Participants: Laboratories approved to perform testing on the citizens of Pennsylvania |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
DEKS, Danish Institute for External Quality Assurance for Laboratories in Health Care |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: POCT, hematology, selected schemes for clinical chemistry, microbiology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: website is in Danish - DEKS provides essentially all surveys in Denmark, but most of the schemes are purchased abroad (from Dr. Uldall) |
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| Program Name:
DGKC - Deutche Gesellschaft fur Klinishe chemie (German Society for Clinical Chemistry) |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Chemistry - General, Tumor markers, lipids, urine, blood gases, Tox Immunology - Immunohematology Hematology - Coagulation, Molecular Pathology, Photometer control |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
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| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
DicoCARE VEQ - Programma di Valutazione Esterna di Qualitita in Medicina di Laboratorio |
| Affiliation: Commercial |
| Specialties: Chemistry - Immunoassays, TORCH, allergen specific and total IgE, prenatal markers Immunology, Immunohematology |
| Frequency: 4 times per year since 1998 (10 schemes in 2001) |
| Participants: 540- Open Voluntary- Italy plus San Marino and Vatican City |
| Fees: |
| Notes: Medical Systems S.p.A. established in 1977, is ISO 9002 certified since 1998 Commercial in vitro diagnostic reagents and systems, pre and post sales assistance and training courses for users of the commercialised systems" |
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| Program Name:
DigitalPT |
| Affiliation: Canadian External Quality Assessment Lab. |
| Specialties: Andrology Chemistry - General, Lipids (lipid reference methods) Hematology, Transfusion Medicine, Clinical Microscopy, Diagnostic Immunology, Microbiology - Bacteriology, Mycobacteriology, Mycology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
ECAT EQAP - European Concerted Action on Thrombosis External Quality Assessment Program |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Hematology -Coagulation Genetics - Molecular tests for Thrombosis Molecular biology |
| Frequency: Coag is 4 times per year and molecular biology 2 times per year |
| Participants: 325 - (July 2001) Worldwide |
| Fees: Yes |
| Notes: This programme started in 1993 as an European EQAS but now operates worldwide. The programme is mainly focused on laboratory tests involved in the screening for thrombophilia. |
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| Program Name:
EMQN EQA - European Union Molecular Genetics Network |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Genetics - in 1999, 6 disease specific schemes Molecular genetics |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: In 1999, 251 centers participated from 35 countries - Restricted in 1998 to EU countries |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
EQA-PKU - External Quality Assurance for molecular genetic testing for Phenylketonuria |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Chemistry - PKU only |
| Frequency: New program to begin pilot testing in second half of 2001 |
| Participants: Pilot test with 10-15 European laboratories |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Eqas AIIMS India |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Bacteriology, Hematology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
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| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Eqas Bacteriology Indonesia |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Bacteriology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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| Program Name:
Eqas Bacteriology Jordan |
| Affiliation: |
| Specialties: Bacteriology |
| Frequency: |
| Participants: |
| Fees: |
| Notes: |
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