VOLUME 24 NUMBER 4 WINTER- 2020 – 2021 ISSN 1496-3876
Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality
The Rix Family Fund officially confirmed that it would support a new Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC.
Last month the Rix Family Fund officially confirmed that it would support a new Donald B. Rix Professorship in Laboratory Quality in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine here at UBC. I think this is the first so named professorship in Canada.
Dr. Rix had a long interest in Laboratory Quality. When I first met him he was chairing an accreditation team for the College of American Pathologists monitoring laboratories in Washington state.
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Updating EQA Standards 2020
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) first designed a standard for proficiency testing providers entitled ““Conformity assessment — General requirements for proficiency testing” in 2006 … its revision is now well on its way and a new and revised edition should be available in late 2021 or early 2022
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