Research area: Health Services Research

Description

This group consists in physicians, pharmacists and chemists of the Catalan Health Institute that specialize in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. In addition, seven members of this group belong to the Laboratory Tests Quality Commission of the Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQCML) and have over 15 years of experience on quality of laboratory tests. Another four members belong to the Extraanalytical Phase Quality Commission of the same society, which aims to determine the extraanalytical phase errors. The group has also international presence in the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and laboratory Medicine (EFLM) working Group for the preanalytical phase and the Task Force on Performance Specifications in Laboratory Medicine. Quality indicators are essential to monitor quality management systems. They must be designed to detect errors as early as possible to guarantee the realiability of laboratory processes. Monitoring the results of quality indicators prevents errors that can affect the management of the patient.

Research Lines

Quality indicators in the clinical laboratory, Adequacy of requests for laboratory tests from primary care, Agreement on critical values and warning values in the e-CAP.

Members

Projects

The group participates in the following projects:

PI: LLovet Lombarte, Mª Isabel. Consens de Resultats Crítics del Laboratori (CRICS). Funding: IDIAP Jordi Gol. Duration: 2015 - 2017

Publications

The group participates in the following publications:

Cornes M, van Dongen-Lases E, Grankvist K, Ibarz M, Kristensen G, Lippi G, Nybo M, Simundic AM; Working Group for Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE), European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM). Order of blood draw: Opinion Paper by the European Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) Working Group for the Preanalytical Phase (WG-PRE). Clin Chem Lab Med. 2017 Jan 1;55(1):27-31. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0426. PubMed PMID: 27444170. IF: 3,432

LLopis MA, Bauça JM, Barba N, Álvarez V, Ventura M, Ibarz M, Gómez-Rioja R, Marzana I, Puente JJ, Segovia M, Martinez D, Alsina MJ. Spanish Preanalytical Quality Monitoring Program (SEQC), an overview of 12 years' experience. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2017 Mar 1;55(4):530-538. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2016-0382. PubMed PMID:27658151. IF: 3,432.

LLovet M, Biosca C, Martínez A, Blanco A, Busquets G, Llopis M, Montesinos M, Minchinela J, Perich C, Ruiz M, Serrat N, Simon M, Ibarz M. Reaching consensus on communication of critical laboratory results using a collective intelligence method. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2017;56(3):403. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2017-0374. IF: 3,432.

Salinas M, López-Garrigós M, Flores E, Leiva-Salinas C; Pilot Group of the Appropriate Utilization of Laboratory Tests (REDCONLAB) working group. Primary care requests for anaemia chemistry tests in Spain: potential iron, transferrin and folate over-requesting. J Clin Pathol. 2017 Sep;70(9):760-765. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2016-204249. Epub 2017 Feb 17. PubMed PMID: 28213561. IF: 2,687.

Salinas M, López-Garrigós M, Flores E, Leiva-Salinas C; Pilot Group of the Appropriate Utilization of Laboratory Tests (REDCONLAB) working group. Temporal and regional variability in the request of vitamin D from general practitioners in Spain. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2017 Oct 26;55(11):1754-1760. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2016-1040. PubMed PMID: 28231056. IF: 3,432.

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