The Dutch EASI team was founded
in september 2005. The team underscored the international EASI
goals, being:
- Improvement of the communicatio between clinicians and
laboratory specialists
- Standardisation of tests for autoantibodies
- Harmonisation of tests, algoritms and interpretation of
results
At the time EASI started, there
already existed several initiatives in the Netherlands with
(partially) overlapping goals. Is was decided to collaborate
with these initiatives, which was facilitated because of
substantial overlap in the people involved.