Dear members of CSMBLM, 

We inform you that the application for a national program of external quality assessment in 2020 (three exercises) is open from 2nd December 2020 until 18th December 2020. 

Payment for all three exercises in 2021 should be made till 2nd February 2021. 

Registration CROQALM web site at: https://croqalm.com 

Access inlab2*QALM program is possible after entering a user name and password that you used before. 

Overview of modules and tests by exercises and prices are available on the website of CROQALM in the "Modules and tests" (link http://croqalm.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/moduli-pretrage). 

Module tests have been some changed in compared to the previous year, please check this. 

Your application for a particular module will follow the calendar of events during 2020, according to the planned schedule (March, June, September) which you can view or retrieve in the "Calendar of events" (link http://croqalm.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/dinamika-ciklusa). 

Change basic information about the lab, leader or person to contact can be done directly through the network system, as instructed, and the changes are responsible themselves. 

New customers who have not registered in the system, they need to fill Application form which can be retrieved in the "Instructions forms." The form you need to print, fill out and send to the office CSMBLM fax (+385 1 48 28 133) or by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Following the introduction of the system, new users will get their username and password. 

Please respect the timelines and following instructions: 

Registration of modules and tests and the design offers through the network system users need to do it yourself (offers are formed automatically according to the instructions and commands) 

Sending Order form: according to Offer fill up the form and send it by e-mail to CSMBLM Administrative Secretary, Mrs. Jasna Đogić by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or fax to CSMBLM: +385 1 4828 133 

Preform Invoice: You will receive Preform Invoice by e-mail, 2-3 days after sending the Order form 

Payment of the preform Invoice should be made until 2nd February 2021.

Late entries and payments will not be possible. 

Please send all of your questions and uncertainties related to the application, by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to Information Coordinators: Mrs Ana Grzunov and Mr Alen Vrtaric. 

We kindly ask all users to double-check your username and password if you need to change them. It is also very important to check all the time / module in which you participate in order to avoid subsequent complications. 

We wish to thank all those who, through their participation, patience, suggestions and comments help our external quality assessment program to do better. We will continue to strive to improve the system which is not possible without your valuable comments. 

We look forward to working together 

CROQALM Tim

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation of the 3rd exercise EQAS-2020-2 results is available from October 28, 2020 on the following link https://croqalm.com which is also available on the CROQALM website in the "Results entry".

Any further inquiries you can send to the email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Due to easy and fast reference, please in the description of the email subject, specify CROQALM where do not forget to enter the code of your laboratory.

We thank all participants for their participation.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the third round of external quality assessment in 2020 conducted by Croatian Centre for Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine, within Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine. All necessary information is included below.

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MODULE

I II III IV VI VII VIII-I VIII-II IX X XI XII

Biochemistry parameters Specific protein Laboratory hematology Laboratory coagulation Urinalysis (urine test strip, urine sediment) Analysis of pH, blood gases and electrolytes, glucose and lactate Thyroid hormones and PSA Hormones, vitamins, tumor and cardiac markers HbA1c Extra-analytical phase of laboratory testing (survey only for Croatian partcipants) Sweat chloride test Biochemistry parameters in urine

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DYNAMICS OF CYCLE:	22/09/2020 until 9/10/2020 after 28/10/2020	SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION RESULTS ENTRY ANALYSED RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE
Informatics coordinator	Adna Grzunov	contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with mandatory laboratory code entry
RESULTS ENTRY	through the official CROQALM website in the "Results Entry" section or via website: https://croqalm.com) Annexes: Sample for Module 1, Module 3, Module 8-1, Module-2, and for Module 12 should be determined immediately upon receipt of the shipment. We suggest that you download the certificate of your loading operator, to avoid messages about insecure network address. In case the message appears, your further work will not be disturbed.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim 

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation of the 2nd exercise EQAS-2020-2 results is available from July 17, 2020 on the following link https://croqalm.com which is also available on the CROQALM website in the "Results entry".

Any further inquiries you can send to the email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Due to easy and fast reference, please in the description of the email subject, specify CROQALM where do not forget to enter the code of your laboratory.

We thank all participants for their participation.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the second round of external quality assessment in 2020 conducted by Croatian Centre for Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine, within Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
All necessary information is included below.

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MODULE
I II III IV V VI VII VIII-I IX X XI XII XIII	Biochemistry parameters Specific protein CRP Laboratory hematology Laboratory coagulation Drugs (Medicaments) Urinalysis (urine test strip, urine sediment) Analysis of pH, blood gases and electrolytes, glucose and lactate Thyroid hormones and PSA HbA1c Extra-analytical phase of laboratory testing Sweat chloride test Biochemistry parameters in urine Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

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DYNAMICS OF CYCLE:	3/06/2020 until 19/06/2020 after 17/07/2020	SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION RESULTS ENTRY ANALYSED RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE
Informatics coordinator	Adriana Bokulić Alen Vrtarić	contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with mandatory laboratory code entry
RESULTS ENTRY	through the official CROQALM website in the "Results Entry" section or via website: https://croqalm.com) Annexes: Sample for Module 1, Module 3, Module 5, and for Module 8-1 should be determined immediately upon receipt of the shipment. We suggest that you download the certificate of your loading operator, to avoid messages about insecure network address. In case the message appears, your further work will not be disturbed.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim 

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation of the 1st exercise EQAS-2020-1 results is available from April 24, 2020 on the following link https://croqalm.com which is also available on the CROQALM website in the "Results entry".

Any further inquiries you can send to the email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Due to easy and fast reference, please in the description of the email subject, specify CROQALM where do not forget to enter the code of your laboratory. We thank all partipicats for their participation.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the first round of external quality assessment in 2020 conducted by Croatian Centre for Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine, within Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
All necessary information is included below.

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MODULE

I II III IV VI VII VIII-I VIII-II IX X XI XII XIII

Biochemistry parameters Specific protein Laboratory hematology Laboratory coagulation Urinalysis (urine test strip, urine sediment) Analysis of pH, blood gases and electrolytes, glucose and lactate Thyroid hormones and PSA Hormones, vitamins, tumor and cardiac markers HbA1c Extra-analytical phase of laboratory testing Sweat chloride test Biochemistry parameters in urine Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

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DYNAMICS OF CYCLE:	11/03/2020 until 27/03/2020 after 24/04/2020	SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION RESULTS ENTRY ANALYSED RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE
Informatics coordinator	Adriana Bokulic	contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with mandatory laboratory code entry
RESULTS ENTRY	through the official CROQALM website in the "Results Entry" section or via website: https://croqalm.com) Annexes: Sample for Module 1, Module 3, Module 8-1, Module 8-2 and for Module 12 should be determined immediately upon receipt of the shipment. We suggest that you download the certificate of your loading operator, to avoid messages about insecure network address. In case the message appears, your further work will not be disturbed.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim 

Dear members of CSMBLM,

We inform you that the application for a national program of external quality assessment in 2020 (three exercises) is open from 2^nd December 2019 until December 20^th 2019.

Payment for all three exercises in 2020 should be made till 31^st January 2020.

Registration CROQALM web site at: https://croqalm.com

Access inlab2*QALM program is possible after entering a user name and password that you used before.

Overview of modules and tests by exercises and prices are available on the website of CROQALM in the "Modules and tests" (link http://croqalm.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/moduli-pretrage ).

Module tests have been some changed in compared to the previous year, please check this.

Your application for a particular module will follow the calendar of events during 2020, according to the planned schedule (March, June, September) which you can view or retrieve in the "Calendar of events" (link http://croqalm.hdmblm.hr/index.php/hr/dinamika-ciklusa ).

Change basic information about the lab, leader or person to contact can be done directly through the network system, as instructed, and the changes are responsible themselves.

New customers who have not registered in the system, they need to fill Application form which can be retrieved in the "Instructions forms." The form you need to print, fill out and send to the office CSMBLM fax (+385 1 48 28 133) or by e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Following the introduction of the system, new users will get their username and password.

Please respect the timelines and following instructions:

Registration of modules and tests and the design offers through the network system users need to do it yourself (offers are formed automatically according to the instructions and commands)

Sending Order form: according to Offer fill up the form and send it by e-mail to CSMBLM Administrative Secretary, Mrs. Jasna Đogić by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  or fax to CSMBLM: +385 1 4828 133

Preform Invoice: You will receive Preform Invoice by e-mail, 2-3 days after sending the Order form

Payment of the preform Invoice should be made until 31^st January 2020.

Late entries and payments will not be possible.

Please send all of your questions and uncertainties related to the application, by e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  to Information Coordinators: Mrs Ana Grzunov and Mrs Adriana Bokulic.

We kindly ask all users to double-check your username and password if you need to change them. It is also very important to check all the time / module in which you participate in order to avoid subsequent complications.

We wish to thank all those who, through their participation, patience, suggestions and comments help our external quality assessment program to do better. We will continue to strive to improve the system which is not possible without your valuable comments.

We look forward to working together

CROQALM Tim

Dear colleagues,

Welcome to the third round of external quality assessment in 2019 conducted by Croatian Centre for Quality Assessment in Laboratory Medicine, within Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
All necessary information is included below.

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MODULE

I II III IV VI VII VIII-I VIII-II IX X XI XII XIII

Biochemistry parameters Specific protein Laboratory hematology Laboratory coagulation (survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DCHMQ8V) Urinalysis (urine test strip, urine sediment) Analysis of pH, blood gases and electrolytes, glucose and lactate Thyroid hormones and PSA Hormones, vitamins, tumor and cardiac markers HbA1c Extra-analytical phase of laboratory testing (first survey link for sample results https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XF6CYB5; second survey link for postanalyitcs: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NLRVLK6 Sweat chloride test Biochemistry parameters in urine Erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR)

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DYNAMICS OF CYCLE:	10/09/2019 until 27/09/2019 after 20/10/2019	SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION RESULTS ENTRY ANALYSED RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE
Informatics coordinator	Adriana Bokulic Valentina Vidranski	contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with mandatory laboratory code entry
RESULTS ENTRY	through the official CROQALM website in the "Results Entry" section or via website: https://croqalm.com) Annexes: Sample for Module 1, Module 3, Module 8-1,Module 8-2 B, Module 10 and for Module 12 should be determined immediately upon receipt of the shipment. We suggest that you download the certificate of your loading operator, to avoid messages about insecure network address. In case the message appears, your further work will not be disturbed.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim 

 

Dear Colleagues,

The evaluation of the 2nd exercise EQAS-2019-1 results is available from July 17, 2019 on the following link https://croqalm.com which is also available on the CROQALM website in the "Results entry".

After entering your username and password, in the "FINAL REPORT", you can view, print or store the statistical analysis of the results of each module in which you are engaged with the interpretation of the results obtained at the level of all participating laboratories, as well as a final report with the evaluation of the acceptability of the results received by each module of this (and previous) cycle.

Any further inquiries you can send to the email address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Due to easy and fast reference, please in the description of the email subject, specify CROQALM where do not forget to enter the code of your laboratory.

We thank all participants for their participation.

Kind regards,
CROQALM Tim