External Quality Assessments and Proficiency test

Phenotypic external quality assessment for laboratories participating in European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)

The EURL-PH-AMR (DTU) coordinates annual external quality assessments (EQA) exercises to support clinical laboratories in their efforts to improve diagnostic accuracy. The overall scope of the EARS-Net EQA exercise is to ...

• assess the quality of species identification
• assess the accuracy of the interpretation of phenotypic antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results
• evaluate the overall comparability of routinely collected AST results between European laboratories.

Phenotypic external quality assessment (EQA) and genomic proficiency test (PT) exercise for laboratories participating in EURGen-Net

The overall scope of the EURGen-Net phenotypic external quality assessment (EQA) and genomic proficiency test (PT) is to support national reference laboratories in EURGen-Net in their efforts to improve and maintain the quality of species identification, the accuracy of the interpretation of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results, the quality of the whole genome sequencing (WGS) and the accuracy of the results obtained with bioinformatics analyses.