The aim is helping medical laboratories to improve the quality and comparability of their results.  Together with continuous training and education, this will ultimately promote the highest possible quality assurance in patient care.

This is an inter-laboratory comparison designed and conducted to assure the following:

evaluation of participants' performance evaluation of method performance; and continuous education, training and help.
The main aim of the activities of an EQAS in Laboratory Medicine is to sustain improvements in the quality of services provided by participating laboratories for the benefit of patients.

The objectives of EQAS can be summarized in the following :

• To improve the reliability of clinical diagnosis, which will lead to clinicians acceptance of validity and uniformity of interpretation .
• To reduce health care costs. Avoidance of repeating tests and inappropriate treatment due to mobility of patients between health centers and hospitals.
• To provide a basis for continuing education for laboratory personal in scientific methods of investigation, laboratory organization and management and analytical techniques.