Methods used for lipemia evaluation require more attention and quality control processes

In Labquality’s integrated external quality assessment service (EQA3) pre- and postanalytical cases are added to traditional schemes to assist clinical laboratories in meeting end-to-end requirements of the ISO 15189 standard, which states that all steps of the laboratory process should be monitored. Here we present the results of a lipemic sample sent together with regular samples in the general clinical chemistry round 6-2023. The aim of this study was to gain knowledge on how the participants evaluate and handle lipemic samples.