Updated 3/9-2002, Pål Rustad

 

Workshop on

“Common reference intervals for 25 components in the Nordic Countries”

 

Iceland Saturday 10 August 2002 from 0900 to 1800

 

 

INTRODUCTION

 

09.00   Pål Rustad (Oslo):

            “From idea to project - and from project to implementation”

 

THEORY

 

09.15   Per Hyltoft Petersen (Odense):

            “Theoretical aspects of the concept of sharing common reference intervals”

 

09.35   Ari Lahti (Oslo):

            “Theory on partitioning of reference values into subgroups”

                See also Clin. Chem. 48:2, 338-352 (2002)

 

09.55   Nils Jørgensen (Sønderborg):

            “Biological information from the data”

 

10.15   COFFEE

 

COLLECTION AND HANDLING OF DATA

 

10.45   Gitte M. Nielsen (Herlev):

            ”Traceability of values assigned to NORIP-Referencesera CAL and X, stability and the use of the materials”

 

11.05   Arne Mårtensson (Stockholm):

            “Practical problems in the laboratory”

 

                Questionnaire with results

 

11.25   Pål Rustad (Oslo):

            “Structure of the data base and registration of data”

 

11.45   Pål Rustad and Nils Jørgensen:

            “Criteria for excluding data based on analytical quality”

 

12.05   Peter Felding (Copenhagen):

            “Criteria for including and excluding reference individuals”

 

12.30   LUNCH

 

PROJECT RESULTS

 

13.30   Pål Rustad:

            “Presentation of the proposed common reference intervals”

               Summary table of proposed reference intervals - SEE MENU FOR PRESENT STATUS!

14.40      Heidi Steensland (NKK)

“New IFCC methods for enzymes”

           

15.00   COFFEE

 

15.30   Plenum (Per Hyltoft Petersen)

            “Plenum discussion of proposed reference intervals”

 

16.15   SHORT PAUSE

 

IMPLEMENTATION AND EXTERNAL CONTROL

 

16.30   Gunnar Nordin (Equalis):

            “Practical aspects of common reference intervals including external quality assessment”

           

RELATED PROJECTS

 

16.50   Veli Kairisto (Turku):

            “Expanded project on haematology”

 

17.10   Pål Rustad:

            “Conclusions and perspectives”

 

17.30   Ebba Nexø (Aarhus):

            “Perspectives”