Surveys on the accreditation of providers of proficiency testing and external quality assessment schemes

Accreditation and Quality Assurance

Volumn 11, Issue 8-9, 2006, Pages 379-384

  Schmidt, Anita ^a   Örnemark, Ulf ^b   Golze, Manfred ^a   Henriksen, Gitte Marie ^c  

^a EUROLAB Technical Secretariat   (Germany)

^b Eurachem Proficiency Testing Working Group   (Sweden)

^c GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Accreditation; Certification; External quality assessment; Interlaboratory comparison; Proficiency testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747131465     PISSN: 09491775     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00769-006-0110-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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