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The 2005 Antwerp meeting “Quality in Medical Laboratories”
Clinical Biochemistry 38 (2005) 292
Announcement
The 2005 Antwerp meeting bQuality in Medical LaboratoriesQ
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H.M.J. Goldschmidta,*, J.C. Libeerb,1 a
Foundation DCT, PO Box 4201, 5004 JE Tilburg, The Netherlands Institute of Public Health, Juliette Wytmanstraat 14, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
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Received 1 November 2004; accepted 2 November 2004 Available online 29 December 2004
The quality [r]evolution But where did this evolution take us? What is the current status? Is it still a patchwork of all kinds of ideas or is there a more general (unified) setup emerging that is more healthcare specific?
The NEXUS vision Laboratory medicine needs to reach for the next level of quality awareness and achievement. With a focus on the NEXUS vision, we will discuss and design a comprehensive vision for quality requirements in laboratory medicine. We will begin with post-analytical quality, take (perhaps mistakenly) analytical quality for granted, and then reason our way back toward preanalytical quality. Concepts such as metrological traceability, measurement uncertainty, and total quality systems are all incorporated in the NEXUS vision. The tools and technology are ready to use. The NEXUS vision states: the diagnostic environment of any patient should be totally digitalis, humanly supervised at predetermined times, and in full through continuous interaction with databases containing relevant, well-defined information. All these are conditions bto obeyQ the ideal test requirements that lead towards a total error budget of H BVii for analytical variability. The NEXUS concept suggests that the laboratory’s responsibilities in the future will be to support the answering of clinical questions in the context of the patient’s needs. bContextQ here also means that quality goes beyond getting the brightQ answer on the brightQ patient that can be interpreted against brightQ reference values. Quality ultimately means being sure the patient is treated correctly. In addition, a variety of industrial High Park presentations will shed light on their contribution to the NEXUS vision. Prominent international speakers will address the conference, shedding light on the future of laboratory medicine and facilitating the numerous interactive sessions.
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Quality in the Spotlight Conference at the Elzenveld in Antwerp, Belgium, 7th and 8th of March 2005 with focus on an bIntegral QualityQ concept— NEXUS. This will be the 10th consecutive conference on Quality in Medical Laboratories held in Antwerp. * Corresponding author. Fax: +31 13 4676280. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.M.J. Goldschmidt)8 [email protected] (J.C. Libeer). URL: www.QualitySpotlight.com. 1 Fax: +32 2 6425645.
doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.11.011
CLB-06044; No. of page: 1; 4C:
Announcement
The 2005 Antwerp meeting bQuality in Medical LaboratoriesQ
$
H.M.J. Goldschmidta,*, J.C. Libeerb,1 a
Foundation DCT, PO Box 4201, 5004 JE Tilburg, The Netherlands Institute of Public Health, Juliette Wytmanstraat 14, 1050 Brussels, Belgium
b
Received 1 November 2004; accepted 2 November 2004 Available online 29 December 2004
The quality [r]evolution But where did this evolution take us? What is the current status? Is it still a patchwork of all kinds of ideas or is there a more general (unified) setup emerging that is more healthcare specific?
The NEXUS vision Laboratory medicine needs to reach for the next level of quality awareness and achievement. With a focus on the NEXUS vision, we will discuss and design a comprehensive vision for quality requirements in laboratory medicine. We will begin with post-analytical quality, take (perhaps mistakenly) analytical quality for granted, and then reason our way back toward preanalytical quality. Concepts such as metrological traceability, measurement uncertainty, and total quality systems are all incorporated in the NEXUS vision. The tools and technology are ready to use. The NEXUS vision states: the diagnostic environment of any patient should be totally digitalis, humanly supervised at predetermined times, and in full through continuous interaction with databases containing relevant, well-defined information. All these are conditions bto obeyQ the ideal test requirements that lead towards a total error budget of H BVii for analytical variability. The NEXUS concept suggests that the laboratory’s responsibilities in the future will be to support the answering of clinical questions in the context of the patient’s needs. bContextQ here also means that quality goes beyond getting the brightQ answer on the brightQ patient that can be interpreted against brightQ reference values. Quality ultimately means being sure the patient is treated correctly. In addition, a variety of industrial High Park presentations will shed light on their contribution to the NEXUS vision. Prominent international speakers will address the conference, shedding light on the future of laboratory medicine and facilitating the numerous interactive sessions.
$
Quality in the Spotlight Conference at the Elzenveld in Antwerp, Belgium, 7th and 8th of March 2005 with focus on an bIntegral QualityQ concept— NEXUS. This will be the 10th consecutive conference on Quality in Medical Laboratories held in Antwerp. * Corresponding author. Fax: +31 13 4676280. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.M.J. Goldschmidt)8 [email protected] (J.C. Libeer). URL: www.QualitySpotlight.com. 1 Fax: +32 2 6425645.
doi:10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2004.11.011
CLB-06044; No. of page: 1; 4C: