Special Newsletter
Because of the current COVID-19 pandemic we would like to inform you about the effect of this situation on the services and external quality assessment programme of the ECAT Foundation. We kindly ask you to take a good look at this information.
Petra van Velp
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ECAT office
As a result of governmental regulations, the daily occupation of the ECAT office will be reduced till April 28th. We do the utmost to keep everything running as usual. However, due to the reduced occupancy, it may take some days more before we can respond to your emails.
Depending on further governmental regulations we probably have to extend this period. We will announce this at our website.
We apologise for any inconvience.
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EQA Surveys
The Survey Schedule for the first half year of 2020 has been modified. Below a summary of the changes is given:
| Survey |
Description |
Survey period extended till |
| 2020-S1 |
Screen survey |
30 April |
| 2020-D1 |
D-Dimer survey |
30 April |
| 2020-M1 |
Main survey |
30 April |
| 2020-L1 |
Lupus survey |
30 April |
| 2020-A1 |
Anticoagulation survey |
30 April |
| 2020-H1 |
Homocysteine survey |
30 April |
| 2020-T1 |
ROTEM/TEG survey |
30 April |
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Original survey period |
| 2020-S2 |
Screen survey |
11 – 15 May |
| 2020-D2 |
D-Dimer survey |
15 – 23 June |
The following surveys will be postponed until further notice:
2020-M2 (Main); 2020-L2 (Lupus), 2020-A2 (Anticoagulation), 2020-H2 (Homocysteine), 2020-P2 (PFA), 2020-TG2 (Thrombin generation), 2020-T2 (ROTEM/TEG).
As we do not currently know the duration of the COVID-19 crisis no information can be given yet about the expected start of the above mentioned surveys. We hope to resume our services as soon as we are able to do. We keep you informed.
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ECAT Participants' Meeting
We have decided to postpone our participants' Meeting, originally scheduled for 5 and 6 November 2020 to November 2021. The new dates for the symposium are 18 and 19 November 2021.
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If you have any questions about the above mentioned information, please send an e-mail to the ECAT office: info@ecat.nl
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