Call for participation in national program for quality control in laboratory medicine 2014

Applications for national program for quality control in 2014 (three cycles) is opened for a period of one month, from March 11th until April 11th 2014.

Application and payment are to be made for the year 2014, which contains three cycles of external quality control. Application can be made via CROQALM web interface on web address: https://hdmb-vkkr.dyndns.biz/

Access to inlab2*QALM program is available after logging in with previously used username and password.

Modules and tests by cycles can be found on CROQALM web address: http://www.hdmblm.hr/hr/croqalm-2. Some tests have been altered from the last cycle. Changes have been made based on results from last cycle and suggestions from participants. New module is introduced, point-of-care (POC) for blood gasses and acid-base equilibria, with glucose and lactate added to it. Two new modules are introduced for a trial period: pre-analytical and post-analytical (module 10 and module 11) and no additional payment is required for them.

Cycle dynamics for 2014:

1st cycle: 12.-22.6.2014.

2nd cycle: 15-25.9.2014.

3rd cycle: 7.-17.11.2014.

We thank all of the participants for their cooperation, patients, suggestions and comments that have helped make our program of external quality control better. We will continue to improve this system with the help of your comments.

We are looking forward to our cooperation,

Yours CROQALM team