Revision of the “Guideline of the German Medical Association on Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratory Examinations – Rili-BAEK”

In April 2023, the Executive Board of the German Medical Association agreed to update Part A, Part B 1 and Part B 5 of the “Guideline of the German Medical Association on Quality Assurance in Medical Laboratory Examinations – Rili-BAEK”.

The update of Part A (Basic requirements for quality assurance in medical laboratory examinations) is limited to a few selective changes. In Part B 1 (Quantitative medical laboratory examinations) a new Table B 1-1 (Specifications on specimens to be used) was added and the internal and external quality assurance requirements for the measurand glucose were raised.

Part B 5 (Molecular genetic and cytogenetic medical laboratory examinations) was completely revised.

The requirements and new regulations of the updated guideline must be fulfilled no later than three years after its publication in the Deutsches Ärzteblatt, i.e. by the end of May 2026.

The updated guideline and a detailed explanation of the changes associated with the update are available on the homepage of the German Medical Association: baek.de/rilibaek (DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2023.rili_baek_QS_Labor).

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Original Paper:

• Parviz Ahmad-Nejad , Walter Bauersfeld , Hannsjörg Baum , Hermann M. Behre , Ralph Burkhardt , Uwe Cassens , Uta Ceglarek , Martin Christmann , Jann-Frederik Cremers , Sabine Diedrich , Sybille Döring , Norbert Gässler , Gerhard Haase , Verena Haselmann , Jörg Hofmann , Stefan Holdenrieder , Marc P. Hübner , Klaus-Peter Hunfeld , Daniela Huzly , Nicolai Kohlschmidt , Frank-Michael Köhn , Uwe Kornak , Karl-Anton Kreuzer , Jürgen Kunz , Karl Lackner , Sandra Niendorf , Dirk Peetz , Astrid Petersmann , Karl-Heinz Pick , Holger F. Rabenau , Ulrich Sack , Carolin Schächterle , Sven Schaffer , Sven Schneider , Hans Christian Schuppe , Christian Seidl , Holger Tönnies , Manfred Uhr , Kerstin Ullmann , Martin Volkmann , Nathalie Weiss , Nele Wellinghausen , Heinz Zeichhardt , Urban App , Dieter Auch , Jürgen Barion , Philipp Hiester , Patricia Kaiser , Mariam Klouche , Mandy Kolanowski-Albrecht , Rainer Macdonald , Waltraut Malms-Fleschenberg , Andrea Michelsen , Ingo Schellenberg , Roman Schiffner , Michael Spannagl , Rainer Stosch , Laura van Diepen , Sascha Wettmarshausen , Stefan Ziesing , Cornelius Knabbe , Christoph Schoerner , Sabine Kliesch und Matthias Nauck 

Aus der Zeitschrift Journal of Laboratory Medicine

https://doi.org/10.1515/labmed-2024-0131