Laboratory Medicine ›› 2017, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (10): 941-944.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2017.010.023

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Establishment and application of external quality assessment programs for personalized medical diagnostic tests

XIAO Yanqun, WANG Hualiang   

  1. Shanghai Center for Clinical Laboratory,Shanghai 200126,China
  • Received:2016-12-15 Online:2017-10-20 Published:2017-11-20

Abstract:

Personalized medical diagnostic tests which mainly rely on molecular diagnostic technology have developed rapidly in recent years. Medical tests related to cancer,genetics,pharmacogenomics and microbial determination have been successively carried out in many clinical laboratories and play roles in personalized medical treatments. Accurate and reliable clinical diagnostic results are important for personalized healthcare,and external quality assessment(EQA) program is one of the most effective approaches to ensure the accuracy and reliability of medical tests' results. Establishing EQA programs for molecular diagnostic tests scientifically,developing a new EQA program in time and covering the whole process are focuses for the quality supervision of molecular diagnostic tests.

Key words: Molecular diagnostic technology, Personalized medicine, External quality assessment

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