Welcome to the RfB

From 2019 onwards the following additional parameters will be available:
- urea
- creatinine

- lithium
- magnesium

From now on, we take purchase orders for 2019. Please be aware that all orders of the contract type A are already copied to 2019. We recommend to wait for the new program, which includes an ordering scheme, before placing your next order.

With the following questionnaire we would like to evaluate the demand for additional measurands within the framework of our survey for newborn screening (NBS). Therefore, we kindly ask you to fill in this short form and send it to us by post, fax or via e-mail (info@dgkl-rfb.de).

With best regards
RfB Organization Team

The Reference Institute for Bioanalytics wants to conduct a survey for sweat analysis in the second half of the year. In order to estimate the interest and plan the survey, we ask you to fill in and send us the short questionnaire sweat analysis if you are interested (post / fax / e-mail).

Thank you for your help.
The survey management

Starting this year the RfB will provide surveys for the faeces diagnostics.
We will offer the first one, FD1/18, free of charge as a pilot survey. The scheduled dates as well as the prices from the 2nd survey (FD2/18) can be viewed at the following links:
survey dates
survey details

The following parameters are part of the survey:

• Hemoglobin iFOBT assay (quantitative, qualitative)
• Hemoglobin/haptoglobin complex (quantitative, qualitative)
• Elastase -1 (quantitative, qualitative)
• Calprotectin (quantitative, qualitative)

For further participation please use the following order sheet or use our online system:
order sheet FD 2018

All participants that have indicated interest in such a survey by replying to our corresponding poll will get sample material.

We have created the possibility to insert comments into the evaluation overview. This gives you the opportunity to clearly document specific issues and measures taken for a survey. The evaluation overview including the comments can be printed out and stored together with your other documents.

In the last few years the resistance development against antibiotics increased. For this reason we already launched a survey for MRSA-Screening. To complete our proposal and promote standardisation, we would like to announce surveys for MRGN-Screening (multi-resistant-gramnegative bacteria) and VRE-Screening (Vancomycin resistant Enterococci). More information are available in our current survey-scheme.

In the surveys for newborn screening the analytes IRT and PAP were added, which are determined in the context of early detection of cystic fibrosis (CF). With this new offer of analytes we have changed in our program the short name of the survey TS to NBS (Newborn screening) from the 2nd survey 2016 on. Existing orders for TS have been set according to NBS.

After multiple requests by our participants, we have introduced the analyte in our survey pregnancy (SD) diagnostic. The first evaluation will be available in survey SD2/16.

From now on, our webupdate for 2016 is active. We have implemented the new function "reminder e-mails" for you, in order that you don't forget a survey deadline. In addition, new long-term evaluations are available under the "evaluations" section. Please find the details here.

In our survey for clinical chemical analytes in serum (wet chemistry, KS) you can now also determine the osmolality.

The „Deutsche Vereinte Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin (DGKL)“ submitted the English Translation of the “Guideline of the German Medical Association for the Implementation of Statistical Quality Control and of External Quality Assurance Studies in the Field of Medicine” (Rili-BÄK). The Online Version of this special issue of the journal “LaboratoriumsMedizin” can be accessed here.

The RfB intends to provide surveys for the determination of ethyl glucuronide (ETG) from urine. In order to plan these surveys and assess their needs, we ask you to return this form to us if you are interested in. Alternatively just send us an email with your participation number and the keyword "Ethyl clucuronide in urine". Our e-mail address is info@dgkl-rfb.de

The according publication of the “deutsche Ärzteblatt” can be downloaded here.

Starting from now, our new immunological surveys (such as BorrBimm), that will be on in the second half of the year, are open for registration. As usual, registrations are accepted by web, by post, by fax (registration form) or by phone.

The participant pages are now divided into “past”, “current” and “upcoming” survey sections. These are controlled by tabs. With this, we hope to improve the scheme of your current RfB-survey.

With the launch of the new website of the RfB, there are additional features available now:

• Combined administration of several participant numbers
• Improved administration of e-mail-addresses
• Administration of shipping options
• Change of languages at all times

The new profile administration is the basic module for the new features. For help, please use the "?" buttons. Additionally, the new web manual can be downloaded at „help“ below. We appreciate any comments and feedback via info@dgkl-rfb.de