Quality assurance

Quality assurance is an essential part of managing clinical trials. Quality and assurance are paramount to any trial; we undergo regular audits – not only internal, but also by pharmaceutical companies as well as regional and federal government authorities.

Assuring quality means more than just compliance with statutory regulations; we are responsible to our clients and our study participants. Our awareness of this responsibility remains even after more than thousand clinical trials that we have conducted.

We participate in external quality assessment schemes of the following organisations:

• DGKL e.V., Deutsche Vereinte Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin e.V. (German association for clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine), Germany
• Instand e.V., Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Qualitätssicherung in medizinischen Laboratorien e.V. (Institute for standardisation and documentation in medical laboratories), Germany
• UK NEQAS, United Kingdom
• G-EQUAS, German External Quality Assessment Scheme (Univ. Erlangen)
• ECAT, External Quality Assessment Programme (EQAP) for laboratories working in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis (NL)
• DEQAS, Vitamin D External Quality Assessment Scheme (GB)