Results From 16 Years of Quality Surveillance of Urine Albumin to Creatinine Ratio Testing for a National Indigenous Point-of-Care Testing Program.

Context.—: The burden of chronic kidney disease in Indigenous Australians is 7.3 times higher than that of non-Indigenous Australians.

Results from 15years of quality surveillance for a National Indigenous Point-of-Care Testing Program for diabetes.

Introduction: Diabetes is a major health problem for Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Point-of-care testing for haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) has been the cornerstone of a long-standing program (QAAMS) to manage glycaemic control in Indigenous people with diabetes and recently, to diagnose diabetes.

Methods: The QAAMS quality management framework includes monthly testing of quality control (QC) and external quality assurance (EQA) samples.