Cytobacteriology of urines

his External Quality Assessment (AGLAE's programme ‘80’) in synthetic urines is provided in the frame of:

• the accreditation scope related to the ISO 15189 standard "Medical laboratories - Requirements for quality and competence" (check AGLAE's accreditation - Cofrac No. 1-1664)

Features of this EQA:

• Samples close to patient samples
• Validation of the complete analysis from the receipt of the test sample up to the results submission
• Assessment of several technicians and several techniques (automatic, manual): reference results and up to 5 additional results
• Measurements in replicates to assess the repeatability of laboratories analyses, that is their precision
• Comparison of results per peer groups (manual analyses, Biomérieux - Sysmex Iris Diagnostics i2a and A. Menarini Diagnostics)
• Results reported on-line
• Results and performance gathered in a synthetic file