External Quality Assessment  in peripheral blood morphology - PNAEQ experience

Peripheral blood morphology is a very important tool for the clinical diagnosis in haematology disorders. The National External Quality Assessment Program (PNAEQ), aims to promote EQA programs, using Expert Working Groups as methodology (WG). The Haematology WG was formalized in 2013 and has the collaboration of national experts, namely from hospital and oncology entities, who voluntarily contribute with samples and case study selection, as well as in monitoring and evaluation of the results, aiming to a continuous improvement of participants' performance. The aim of this work was the evaluation of participating hospital and ambulatory laboratories performance, in the period between 2015 and 2017, regarding the identification of the morphological alterations and diagnostic hypothesis(1) for the peripheral blood smear sent.

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Avaliação Externa da Qualidade AEQ Programa Nacional de Avaliação Externa da Qualidade PNAEQ External Quality Assessment EQA Peripheral Blood Morphology Haematology Disorders Morfologia de Sangue Periférico Hematologia

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.18/6090

Editora

Instituto Nacional de Saúde Doutor Ricardo Jorge, IP

Coleções

DEP - Posters/abstracts em congressos internacionais

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