TOOLS, TECHNOLOGY, AND TRAINING
FOR ANALYTICAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Laboratory Medicine Seminar
July 17th, 1997
University of Wisconsin-Madison
James O. Westgard, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
This seminar provides an update on Dr. Westgard's work in analytical quality
management. He reviews the development of QC planning tools, such as power
function graphs, critical- error graphs, and OPSpecs charts, and describes
how these tools are available to laboratories through computer technology,
such as the QC Validator program. Version 2.0 of this program provides
an automatic QC selection function that makes it possible to develop automatic
QC processes that could be incorporated in instrument systems, computer
work stations, and laboratory information systems. Training in the theory
and application of these tools and technology is becoming available through
a web based course on QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories. New web
tools for normalized OPSpecs charts allow laboratories to perform QC planning
applications with resources available only on the web.
For more information about the topics covered in this seminar, see the
following materials available on this website:
