Quality assurance and quality control

Why we need to harmonize fasting definitions for blood sampling

New recommendations on improving the diagnostic process focus on errors, communication, and putting the patient at the center of healthcare

Putting patient safety first means reducing laboratory-associated and diagnostics errors

The EFLM President weighs in on preanalytical phase errors and what can be done about them.

Why it is vital to define critical values and establish standard procedures for reporting them.

Helpings labs to understand their role in clinical care, and to impact and improve patient outcomes.

In the era of personalized medicine, the use of reference materials is more important now than ever.

Preanalytical accuracy in surgical pathology targeted by new recommendations

The views of the members of the EFLM Working Group for Preanalytical Phase

The preanalytical phase is subject to more error than any other part of the testing cycle – what can we do to improve it?