Accreditation process in European countries - an EFLM survey.
Guilaine BoursierInes VukasovicPika Mesko BrguljanMaria LohmanderIrina GhitaFrancisco A Bernabeu AndreuEdward BarrettDuilio BrugnoniChristos KroupisLudek SpronglMarc H M ThelenFlorent VanstapelTatjana VodnikWillem HuismanMichel Vaubourdollenull nullPublished in: Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine (2016)
While there are several variations in the approaches to accreditation of medical laboratories in the European countries, the ISO 15189 accreditation project has been widely accepted. The use of a unique standard and the cooperation among countries due to scientific societies, EFLM, accreditation bodies and EA enable laboratory professionals to move toward uniform implementation of the accreditation concept.