title: External quality assessment in therapeutic drug monitoring: an Italian experience.
abstract: Pharmacontrol is an external quality assessment (EQA) for therapeutic drug monitoring initiated in Italy in 1986 on regional basis. Since then, interest and involvement being on a national level, participation has expanded to some 180 laboratories currently. The EQA concerns assays for the drugs most frequently monitored in Italy (seven drugs until 1989, 13 at present). The results obtained in 1989, reported in this paper, indicate a generally satisfactory level of both precision and accuracy.
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio Centrale di Analisi, USL 10/D, Firenze.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Borsotti
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Valenza
mesh_terms: D002624:Chemistry, Clinical / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007158:Immunologic Techniques / Q000592:standards; D007558:Italy; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000032:analysis*; D011786:Quality Control; D012015:Reference Standards; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations