ESfEQA – European Society for External Quality Assessment

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ESfEQA offers a wide range of External Quality Assessment Schemes
ESfEQA was founded in Heidelberg/Germany in 2013 and is accredited according to the international standard ISO 17043:2010 by the German national accreditation body DAkkS.
Since its foundation, ESfEQA has expanded its program portfolio and at the same time the number of laboratories participating in ESfEQA’s external quality assessment schemes.

Currently, ESfEQA offers more than 70 quantitative and qualitative EQA schemes worldwide for your medical laboratory in the areas of:

Biochemistry
Immunology
Microbiology
Molecular Diagnostics
Haematology
Clinical Case Study Program

Participants submit their results to the ESfEQA database via the secured TEQA web application. ESfEQA evaluates the participants’ results according to ISO 13528 and provides the reports to the participants via TEQA.

ESfEQA – European Society for External Quality Assessment – offers a wide range of EQA programs for your medical laboratory in the areas of Biochemistry, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Diagnostics and Haematology.

  • Increase your confidence and the confidence of customers and patients in your diagnostic results
  • Benefit from peer group comparison and comparison with other diagnostic equipment
  • Maintain a high-quality level to avoid costly and time consuming retesting
  • Support the laboratory staff and management in their efforts for continuous quality improvement

BIOCHEMISTRY

Blood Gas and Electrolytes
Cardiac Marker
Cerebrospinal Fluid
Clinical Chemistry
Coagulation

Drugs of Abuse
Ethanol
Fecal Occult Blood
Glycated Hemoglobin

Qualitative Urine Analysis
Therapeutic Drugs
Urine Chemistry
Urine Sediments

IMMUNOLOGY

hCG
Hormones
Procalcitonin

Specific Proteins

Tumor Marker

MICROBIOLOGY

Adenovirus
Aspergillus Fumigatus
Bacteriology (Pathogen Identification and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing according to EUCAST and CLSI)
Borrelia
Brucella
Chagas
Chlamydophila Pneumoniae
Chlamydophila Trachomatis
Chikungunya Virus
Coxsackie-virus

Dengue Virus
ECHO Virus
Enterovirus
Epstein-Barr Virus
Hepatitis A Virus
Hepatitis B Virus
Hepatitis E Virus
HTLV I/II
Infectious Disease (HIV, HCV, HBV)
Influenza A Virus
Influenza B Virus

Leptospira
Malaria Microscopy (Parasite/Stage Identification)
Measles
Mosquito Transmitted Diseases (Chikungunya, West-Nile, Zika, Dengue)
Parainfluenza Virus
Parvovirus B 19
Respiratory Syncytial Virus
SARS-CoV-2
Syphilis
ToRCH
Varicella Zoster Virus
West-Nile-Fever Virus
Zika Virus

HAEMATOLOGY

Blood Grouping
Immunhematology

Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate for Alifax and Alcor devices

Hemogram
Hemogram including 3-part Diff.

MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

HBV Molecular
HCV Molecular

HIV Molecular

SARS-CoV-2 Molecular

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Clinical Case Study

Registration

Step 1: Contact Technopath Distribution Ltd for information on how to get enrolled in the ESfEQA External Quality Assessment Schemes.

TEQA LAB
Technopath Distribution Ltd will register participants on the TEQA LAB software. TEQA LAB is the ESfEQA software for external quality assessment and the user interface for submitting results and receiving performance reports.
https://teqa.esfeqa.eu

Ordering

Step 2: Choose and order the program of your choice.
Browse the portfolio of eqa schemes by Medical Laboratory Category:
Biochemistry
Immunology
Microbiology
Molecular Diagnostics
Haematology
Clinical Case Study Program

Shipment

Step 3: Technopath Distribution Ltd ships samples to you.

Participants place their order for survey samples from their choice of EQA Program with Technopath Distribution Ltd.  Technopath Distribution Ltd will deliver out the survey samples, under the required temperature controlled conditions, with scheduled shipments during the testing period.

Analysis

Step 4: Analyse samples under laboratory routine conditions.

Testing period(2-3 weeks) are indicated on the sample itself.  Each lab can enter up to 3 results from different analytical devices.

Data Entry

Step 5: Enter and submit your result to ESfEQA.

Participants submit their results to the ESfEQA database via the secured TEQA web application. https://teqa.esfeqa.eu
Reports and certificates are provided online via the TEQA web-application.
Summary indicates the lab performance: bias (%) to target value, z-score as normalised deviation.Comparison of laboratory results with “Peer-group” (same instrument, method, reagent) and general group (all participants).

Report

Step 6: Download and interpret your results via web application.

Reports and certificates are provided online via the TEQA web-application.
Summary indicates the lab performance: bias (%) to target value, z-score as normalised deviation.Comparison of laboratory results with “Peer-group” (same instrument, method, reagent) and general group (all participants).
View ESfEQA Report Interpretation Guide Here >>

ESfEQA reports provide a comparison of laboratory results with other laboratories that use the same analytical system, in particular the same analytical device or reagent, but also provide detailed information for comparison to other analytical devices. We consider the comparison to other analytical devices, methods etc. to be very important since the medical interpretation of laboratory results is usually not associated to any particular instrument, method or reagent brand.
In addition to detailed information, ESfEQA reports contain a summary that allows participants to capture the laboratory performance at a glance.

The reports for quantitative analytes (e. g. in Clinical Chemistry, Hormones or Haematology) consist of several sections.
Participants receive the survey reports electronically as PDF-files via the TEQA web application. Reports from previous surveys are stored in the TEQA database so that participants can download them.

View ESfEQA Report Interpretation Guide Here >>

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