Material from earlier meetings

• “JCTLM Members and Stakeholders biennial meeting and workshop, December 6-10, 2021”
• “Workshop on overcoming challenges to global standardization of clinical laboratory testing: reference materials and regulations”

• Why traceability in laboratory medicine is important for patients. Graham Jones (AU)

• Traceability in laboratory medicine: a driver of accurate results for patients by Graham Beastall (UK).
  Presentation available here

• Traceability in laboratory medicine: a driver of accurate results for patients by Graham Beastall (UK).
  Presentation available here

Three JCTLM presentations from JCTLM were included in the programme:

• Developing Reference Measurement Procedures in Compliance with ISO 15193 by Anja Kessler (DE).
  Presentation available here
• Developing CRMs for Diagnostics in Compliance with ISO 15194 by Karen Phinney (US).
  Presentation available here
• Linking ISO 15195 accreditation with the performance of IFCC reference measurement procedures for enzymes by Mauro Panteghini (IT).
  Presentation available here

The 31 individual PowerPoint presentations are available here.

• Symposium from JCTLM. Traceability in laboratory medicine: what is it and why is it important?
  • Traceability in laboratory medicine: what every laboratory specialist should know. Gary Myers (USA) – Presentation here
  • Traceability and harmonisation – powerful tools for trueness of laboratory results. Elvar Theodorsson (Sweden) – Presentation here
  • Traceability, education and promotion: getting the message out. Graham Beastall (UK) – Presentation here
• Symposium from IFCC Scientific Division. Recent advances in standardization.
  • Commutability issues in standardization of laboratory measurement procedures. Greg Miller (USA)
  • Standardization of pregnancy associated plasma protein A. Saara Wittfooth (Finland)
  • Standardization of urine albumin assays Lori Bachmann (USA)
  • Standardization of CSF proteins Kaj Blennow (Sweden)

• ‘Trazabilidad en el laboratorio clínico: lo que cada profesional de laboratorio clínico debería saber’. Silvia Quiroga (Argentina).
  Presentation available here.
• ‘Trazabilidad y armonización: una herramienta poderosa para la veracidad del resultado del laboratorio’. Marta Torres (Argentina).
• Presentation available here.

• Symposium from JCTLM. Traceability in laboratory medicine: what is it and why is it important?
  • Traceability in laboratory medicine: what every laboratory specialist should know. Gary Myers (USA) – Presentation here
  • Traceability and harmonisation – powerful tools for trueness of laboratory results. Elvar Theodorsson (Sweden) – Presentation here
  • Why traceability in laboratory medicine is important for patients. Graham Jones (Australia) – Presentation here
  • Traceability, education and promotion: getting the message out. Graham Beastall (UK) – Presentation here

• Symposium from IFCC Scientific Division. Standardization in endocrinology.
  • Clinical needs for standardization in endocrinology. Philippe Gillery (France)
  • Eef Lentjes (NL) Standardization of growth hormone. Eef Lentjes (Netherlands)
  • Standardization of parathyroid hormone. Catharine Sturgeon (UK)
  • Standardization of thyroid function tests. Linda Thienpont (Belgium)

• Poster by Graham Beastall, Robert Wielgosz, Elvar Theodorsson , Dave Armbruster, Graham Jones. Traceability in Laboratory Medicine: A Driver for Accurate Patient Results

• Lecture by Graham Jones. ‘Traceability in laboratory medicine’

• Plenary lecture by Graham Jones (Australia). ‘Getting the right answer: the importance of traceability.
• Symposium from IFCC Scientific Division. ‘Standardization a global activity’
  • International co-ordination of standardization activities. Ian Young (UK)
  • Standardization of thyroid function tests – benefits but also changes to come Graham Beastall (UK)
  • Measurement, standardisation and clinical utility of CSF proteins. Kina Höglund (Sweden)
• Symposium from Japanese Society of Clinical Chemistry. ‘Standardization and harmonization in Japan’
  • Pancreatic lipase standardization: break out of never-ending journey. Shigeru Ueda (Japan)
  • The change from the alkali picrate method to the enzymatic method and the standardization of serum creatinine measurement. Susumu Osawa (Japan)
  • MacRM (Multi-Analyte Conventional Reference Material) as a useful tool for nationwide standardization. Naotaka Hamasaki (Japan)
• Symposium from Korean Society of Clinical Chemistry. ‘Standardization effort in Korea’
  • Implementing accuracy-based proficiency testing Junghan Song. (Korea)
  • Standardization activities of National Medical Reference Laboratory in Korea. Yeo – Min Yun (Korea)
  • Current status of triglyceride standardization in Korea. Gye – Cheol Kwon (Korea)

• Lecture by Silvia Quiroga (in Spanish). ‘El comité conjunto ifcc-bipm de trazabilidad. Su relación con la seguridad del paciente a través de la mejora de los resultados’.

• Poster by Graham Jones, and Dave Armbruster. ‘Accurate results for patient care: the role of traceability in laboratory medicine’.

• The 34 individual PowerPoint presentations are available from: www.bipm.org/cc/AllowedDocuments.jsp?cc=JCTLM