1 – Scheme overview

Reticulocytes, disease-related values

2 – Assessment frequency

Number of investigations per year: 2
Number of control samples per investigation: 2
Number of samples per year: 4

3 – List of items assessed 

• Reticulocytes (fluorescence and microscope; can be render in % and absolute value)

4 – Description of the control samples

Liquid human and animal stabilized control blood samples (ready-to-use samples).

5 - Informations

Optional scheme AVAILABLE ONLY to labs registered for the NUM (complete blood count) EQA scheme.

For full reticulocyte count assessment, it is strongly advised to combine the NFR EQA scheme (CBC and reticulocytes in fresh blood) with normal values and the RETI EQA scheme (reticulocytes (stabilized blood)) with pathological values.