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QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories  Accredited by the AACC for 15 PACE credits. Instructor:  James O. Westgard, Ph.D.     with contributions from:   Sharon S. Ehrmeyer, Ph.D.   Robert Burnett, Ph.D. R. Neill Carey, Ph.D. Art Eggert, Ph.D.    Contents:  16 Chapters Syllabus and outline  Reference list Glossary Self-assessment questions and answers Interactive QC calculators a 90-day timelocked educational version of QC Validator 2.0 Available as an online course   accredited by the AACC for 15 ACCENT credits.  View course description at http://www.aacc.org/westgard/

QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories A new CD from WesTgard® Quality Corporation.  Answers the questions:   What quality is needed for a laboratory test? How can you perform QC planning quickly -- within one minute? How do you build quality into a laboratory testing process? How do you implement a practical QC planning process? How do you select acceptability criteria to satisfy CLIA requirements? What's new in quality management? QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories is an advanced course in quality control. For healthcare pratictioners who want to implement and operate QC procedures that reduce waste, increase efficiency, and meet quality requirements, this is an essential training course.   QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories is for QC/QA specialists, supervisors of central laboratories, clinics or outpatient laboratories, healthcare professionals who manage or direct laboratories, as well as medical instrument designers and laboratory inspectors. In sixteen concise lessons, the course teaches the fundamentals of quality control planning.    See the Learning Objectives! View the Course Content! Order the CD now!    Minimum computer requirements: PC 486 or higher; Windows 3.x or higher; Internet Browser (A standard version of Netscape Navigator is included on this CD); 20 MGB hard disk space. Some high-speed CDs may experience compatibility issues with this CD.

 Learning Objectives:

In twelve concise lessons, the QC Planning for Healthcare Laboratories CD teaches you how to:

• Choose control rules and numbers of measurement, N, that meet quality requirements for laboratory tests.
• Define the quality required by laboratory tests.
• Use QC Planning Tools -- Power Function graphs, Critical-Error graphs, and OPSpecs charts -- to choose appropriate control rules and Ns.
• Implement a practical QC planning process in the laboratory.
• Utilize a Total QC strategy for both statistical and non-statistical components of quality control.
• Use computer software support to automatically choose control rules and Ns for laboratory tests.
• Evaluate the various quality requirements: CLIA analytical total error requirements, clinical decision requirements, and European biological goals.
• Learn the future directions that quality control will take.

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