In 2012, it changed its name to the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine (CSMBLM), in line with the current trends within the profession and with the recommendations of European and global professional associations.
[4] Through the voluntary work of its members, CSMBLM is dedicated to improve the profession and scientific field of medical biochemistry and laboratory medicine, raise the level of public awareness at national level, encourage and provide assistance to its members in achieving professional and scientific excellence especially in performance quality of every segment of work in medical biochemistry laboratories.
It is included in databases such as Current Contents (Clinical Medicine), Medline, PubMed Central (PMC), Science Citation Index Expanded™ (SCIE, Thomson Reuters), Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition (JCR, Thomson Reuters), EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Scopus, CAS (Chemical Abstracts Service), EBSCO/Academic Search Complete and DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals).
A significant task, regularly carried out by CSMBLM since 1970, is the external assessment of the performance quality of all medical biochemistry laboratories in the Republic of Croatia.
The external evaluation programs are updated and continually expanded according to the needs of the profession and in line with the European organizations for labor quality assessment (EQAL).