1 - OBJECTIVE

These programmes are not External Quality Assessment (EQA) programmes: they provide staff competence assistance (biologist, technician, intern) for an initial competence assessment, competence maintenance or inter-operator comparability.

ProBioQual provides a complete dossier: digital slide, clinical context and biological results.

Administrators and super-administrators also have access to:

• A consensus formula and a proposed set of Acceptable Limits defined by expert biologists, with an interpretation on an advisory basis.
• An extraction of the results of tested personnel in Excel spreadsheet format.

The medical laboratory remains responsible for authorising its staff: ProBioQual provides its expertise on an advisory basis and leaves the choice of competence assessment criteria to the laboratory.

2 - CONTROL MATERIAL

Digital slides: sourced directly from the laboratories of the expert biologists of the programme.

3 - PROGRAMME CYCLE

1 - Slides made available — ProBioQual makes digital slides available with clinical context and biological results open year-round.

2 - Staff identification — Each staff member identifies themselves by name at login to access the digital slides. One registration allows up to 15 different users to be assessed.

3 - Download of results — Administrators and super-administrators download a summary spreadsheet: individual results for each staff member tested, expected results and interpretation guidance.