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Guidelines for the management of point-of care testing pre-examination, examination and post-examination phases according to the EN ISO 22870 standard Volume 70, hors-série 1, Hors série n°1, Février 2012 - Vol. 2 : Phase post-analytique - Biologie délocalisée

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Groupe de travail SFBC « Accréditation des laboratoires de biologie médicale » (coordonnateur M. Vaubourdolle)

Quality of point-of-care examinations depends on the quality assurance system settled. This paper describes the different tools used to control the pre-examination, examination and post-examination procedures taking part in the quality of patient care according to the requirements of the standard EN ISO 22870 and EN ISO 15189 as well. They include mainly: For the pre-examination phase, the sample traceability and for the analytical phase, the practice of internal quality control and the participation in external quality assessment programme.