Quality-related guidance
Quality related standards describing essential laboratory practices to ensure quality like assay validation, quality assurance and understanding uncertainty of measurement.
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Q 1 - Evaluations, validations and verifications of diagnostic tests
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Issue date: 16 March 2017
Issue number: 5
Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Commercial and in-house diagnostic tests: evaluations and validations’ to ‘Evaluations, validations and verifications of diagnostic tests’.
Q 2 - Quality assurance in the diagnostic infection sciences laboratory
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Issue date: 23 July 2021
Issue number: 8
Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Quality assurance in the diagnostic virology and serology laboratory’ to ‘Quality assurance in the diagnostic infection sciences laboratory’.
Q 4 - Good practices when performing molecular amplification assays
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Issue date: 19 February 2018
Issue number: 5
Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Good laboratory practice when performing molecular amplification assays’ to ‘Good practice when performing molecular amplification assays’.
Q 5 - Inoculation of culture media for bacteriology
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Issue date: 9 January 2017
Issue number: 2
Q 7 - Good practice when ordering and undertaking diagnostic tests for infectious disease serology
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Issue date: 4 August 2021
Issue number: 3
Please note that the title has been changed from ‘Good practice when undertaking serology assays for infectious diseases’ to ‘Good practice when ordering and undertaking diagnostic tests for infectious disease serology’.