Basic QC Practices, Second Edition

Please note: a NEW edition of this manual will be published in April, 2010.

This new edition is available for pre-order now. However, if you can't wait, we can still ship you a copy of the second edition.

2002, 340 pages, 6" x 9" perfect bound
ISBN 1-886958-17-3

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Second Edition, REVISED, UPDATED, AND EXPANDED!

• 8 NEW CHAPTERS!
• MORE THAN 100 ADDITIONAL PAGES!
• OVER 120 CHARTS, GRAPHS, TABLES and ILLUSTRATIONS!

Thousands of laboratory professionals have made the Basic QC Practices their standard reference on laboratory quality.

In the second edition, Dr. James O. Westgard and colleagues updated and expanded their coverage:

NEW TOPICS ADDRESSED:

• Point-of-Care Testing and Physician Office Laboratory QC
• Electronic QC and the Total Testing Process
• External Quality Assessment: Peer Comparison and Proficiency Testing
• Software Tools for QC Design
• Software Tools for QC Implementation

NEW DISCUSSIONS:

• What's the "State of the Art" of QC?
• What's in store for the future of laboratory QC?

Now more than ever, Basic QC Practices is the gold standard for learning Quality Control: a concise and comprehensive introduction to the backbone of the laboratory -- statistical quality control. For healthcare pratictioners who want to implement and operate valid QC procedures, this manual is an essential reference.

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