title: The Canadian Tissue Repository Network Biobank Certification and the College of American Pathologists Biorepository Accreditation Programs: Two Strategies for Knowledge Dissemination in Biobanking.
abstract: As health research increasingly relies on biospecimens and associated data, new demands have emerged for biorepositories to provide assurances of the quality of their overall operations, not just assurances of the quality of the biospecimens and data that they hold. The biobanking community has responded in various ways, including the creation of two different programs to disseminate biobanking best practices. This article describes in detail the Canadian Tissue Repository Network (CTRNet) Biobank Certification Program and the College of American Pathologists (CAP) Biorepository Accreditation Program. Despite differences in their approaches, these programs share one key element-assessment of biobanking practices by an external organization. In the absence of a single internationally endorsed biobanking best practices dissemination program, the CTRNet and CAP programs provide two different solutions, each contributing to the pursuit of enhanced quality in biobanking.
authors.affiliation: 1 Canadian Tissue Repository Network , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada .
authors.forename: Rebecca O
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Barnes
authors.affiliation: 2 Global Operations, BioStorage Technologies , Indianapolis, Indiana.
authors.forename: Katheryn E
authors.initials: KE
authors.lastname: Shea
authors.affiliation: 1 Canadian Tissue Repository Network , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada .|3 Tumour Tissue Repository BC Cancer Agency , Victoria, British Columbia, Canada .|4 Office of Biobank Education and Research, Department of Pathology, University of British Columbia , Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada .
authors.forename: Peter H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Watson
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation / Q000592:standards*; D018070:Biological Specimen Banks / Q000592:standards*; D002170:Canada; D002568:Certification / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D038622:Internationality; D000072142:Pathologists
keywords: best practices; biobanking; quality management