Anna Linko-Parvinen
Chief Physician
Turku University Hospital
Finland
Anna Linko-Parvinen, MD, Associate Professor, is Chief Physician in Clinical Chemistry at Tyks Laboratories, Turku University Hospital, Finland. She also holds a teaching position at the University of Turku. She served as Chair of the Finnish Society of Clinical Chemistry for more than eight years, and has been a member of the EFLM Committee on the Post Analytical Phase for three terms. Within this committee, she initiated a survey on Minimum Retesting Intervals (MRI). Her research interests include laboratory quality improvement, method performance evaluation, and evaluation of diagnostic accuracy, and she is particularly interested in international collaboration.
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EFLM Initiative on Minimum Retest Intervals
Labquality Days 2027
Patient Safety
11.2.2027 15:30 - 16:00 | 208
The talk will present and evaluate the results of the EFLM Committee on the Post Analytical Phase survey on Minimum Retest Intervals (MRI). The findings will be considered in relation to current practices and future opportunities to improve the use of MRIs. The overall benefits of MRIs, as well as barriers to their implementation, will also be discussed. Also on-going initiatives on MRIs will be presented.