QA Scheme

Quality Assurance Scheme

We will be expanding and updating the information available on our Quality Assurance Schemes soon. In the meantime if you have any questions or would like to subscribe to one of the ERNDIM QA schemes please contact us

Subscriptions

Subscriptions to ERNDIM QA Schemes for 2012 will be open from September to November 2011. Subscription to a scheme may still possible after this time but availability will be limited.

We contact existing participants in September to ask them which schemes they would like to subscribe to in the following year.

If you don't already subscribe to an ERNDIM QA Scheme and would like to participate please contact us

Information on the QA schemes offered by ERNDIM is below.

Quantitative Schemes

• Amino Acids
• Cystine in White Blood Cells
• Lysosomal Enzymes
• Purines and Pyrimidines in Urine
• Quantitative Organic Acids in Urine
• Special Assays in Serum
• Special Assays in Urine 

Quantitative schemes are planned and managed by members of the ERNDIM Scientific Advisory Board and organised in partnership with SKML, a Quality Assurance provider based in the Netherlands.
SKML dispatches QA samples to scheme participants and provides a website for on-line submission of results and access to scheme reports by participants.

Further information on these schemes can be found here..

Existing quantitative scheme participants can log on to the results submission website here.

Qualitative Schemes

• Acyl carnitine in Blood Spots (2 centres)
• Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation
• Diagnostic Proficiency Testing (5 centres)
• Qualitative Organic Acids in Urine (2 centres)
• Urine Mucopolysaccharides 

Qualitative schemes are planned and managed by members of the ERNDIM Scientific Advisory Board. The Acyl carnitine, Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation, Qualitative Organic Acids and Urine Mucoploysaccharides schemes are organised by academic centres. Diagnostic Proficiency Testing (DPT) is organised in partnership with CSCQ, a Quality Assurance provider based in Switzerland.

CSCQ dispatches DPT QA samples to the scheme participants and provides a website for on-line submission of results and access to scheme reports.  Existing DPT scheme participants can log on to the CSCQ results submission website here. It is planned that all qualitative schemes will be organised by CSCQ in the near future.

Further information on all the Qualitative schemes can be found here.

Pilot Schemes

Pilot schemes are planned, managed and organised by individuals with expertise in the relevant area. The schemes are monitored by the ERNDIM Scientific Advisory Board for a minimum period of 2 years. If after this time the Scientific Advisory Board is satisfied that the scheme is successful it will recommend that the Executive Committee adopts the scheme as an official ERNDIM QA Scheme.

There are no current Pilot Schemes, but we are actively investigating the possibility of a CSF metabolite scheme.

We would also like to hear about suggestions for new schemes that we might consider in the future.

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