International Health Regulations (IHR)

Laboratory Quality Management System (LQMS) training toolkit

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10 - Assessment - External Quality Assessment (EQA)

The purpose of this module is to provide the participants with aspects of External Quality Assessment (EQA) that contribute to quality laboratory practices.

At the end of this module, participants will be able to:

  • discuss the importance of an EQA program in improving the quality of laboratory test results;
  • describe at least three EQA methods and the advantages and disadvantages of each;
  • outline a method to investigate an unacceptable test result from an EQA sample.

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