16th Quality in the spotlight conference in medical laboratories.
at the Elzenveld in Antwerp, Belgium, on March 29-30, 2012
With the Antwerp meetings that began in 1995, a new concept of exchanging and building ideas was introduced. These successful meetings have been copied in several countries (e.g., Italy, France, Spain and recently in Slovak Republic). After the Stockholm statements (focused on analytical quality and the hierarchy of analytical information) tried to link the field of laboratory medicine to GUM and VIM, something is still missing. In a way, the Antwerp statements of 2000 answered as well as extended Stockholm’s information by explicitly including medical aspects as part of the quality definition. Thereafter the NEXUS concept was introduced as the ultimate definition, disregarding the current state-of-the-art. However, in a formal way, the ultimate goals were defined -- zero order in any analytical phase and an acceptable analytical variation of one-fourth of the intra-individual biological variation. At the Antwerp 2009 meeting, the customer, physician, and patient were recognized and a new class of quality items was introduced and discussed.
Speakers, such as Dr. C. van Campenhout, Prof. J.C. Libeer, Prof. S. Ehrmeyer, Dr. H.M.J. Goldschmidt, Prof. J.O. Westgard and many others will guarantee an inspiring and thought-provoking program.
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