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'''"[[Journal:ISO 15189 accreditation: Navigation between quality management and patient safety|ISO 15189 accreditation: Navigation between quality management and patient safety]]"'''
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'''"[[Journal:Handling metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory|Handling metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory]]"'''


Accreditation is a valuable resource for [[Clinical laboratory|clinical laboratories]], and the development of an international standard for their accreditation represented a milestone on the path towards improved quality and safety in [[laboratory]] medicine. The recent revision of the international standard, [[ISO 15189]], has further strengthened its value not only for improving the [[Quality management system|quality system]] of a clinical laboratory but also for better answering the request for competence, focus on customers’ needs and ultimate value of laboratory services. Although in some countries more general standards such as [[ISO 9000|ISO 9001]] for quality systems or [[ISO 17025]] for testing laboratories are still used, there is increasing recognition of the value of ISO 15189 as the most appropriate and useful standard for the accreditation of medical laboratories. In fact, only this international standard recognizes the importance of all steps of the total testing process, namely extra-analytical phases, the need to focus on technical competence in addition to quality systems, and the focus on customers’ needs. ('''[[Journal:ISO 15189 accreditation: Navigation between quality management and patient safety|Full article...]]''')<br />
To date, non-reproducibility of neurophysiological research is a matter of intense discussion in the scientific community. A crucial component to enhance reproducibility is to comprehensively collect and store metadata, that is, all information about the experiment, the data, and the applied preprocessing steps on the data, such that they can be accessed and shared in a consistent and simple manner. However, the complexity of experiments, the highly specialized analysis workflows, and a lack of knowledge on how to make use of supporting software tools often overburden researchers to perform such a detailed documentation. For this reason, the collected metadata are often incomplete, incomprehensible for outsiders, or ambiguous. Based on our research experience in dealing with diverse datasets, we here provide conceptual and technical guidance to overcome the challenges associated with the collection, organization, and storage of metadata in a neurophysiology [[laboratory]]. ('''[[Journal:Handling metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory|Full article...]]''')<br />
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Fig4 Zehl FrontInNeuro2016 10.jpg

"Handling metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory"

To date, non-reproducibility of neurophysiological research is a matter of intense discussion in the scientific community. A crucial component to enhance reproducibility is to comprehensively collect and store metadata, that is, all information about the experiment, the data, and the applied preprocessing steps on the data, such that they can be accessed and shared in a consistent and simple manner. However, the complexity of experiments, the highly specialized analysis workflows, and a lack of knowledge on how to make use of supporting software tools often overburden researchers to perform such a detailed documentation. For this reason, the collected metadata are often incomplete, incomprehensible for outsiders, or ambiguous. Based on our research experience in dealing with diverse datasets, we here provide conceptual and technical guidance to overcome the challenges associated with the collection, organization, and storage of metadata in a neurophysiology laboratory. (Full article...)

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