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Westgard wrote the book on Quality. More than once. The essential skills, the deep insights, and the critical tools to optimize your Quality Control, your Method Validation (and Verification), and your Six Sigma metrics are here.

In Memoriam: Per Hyltoft Petersen

In January 2022, we lost a great light in the constellation of quality leaders of laboratory medicine. We mourn the passing of Per Hyltoft Petersen.

My Mistake: Errata on Planning SQC strategies and adapting QC frequency for patient risk

A recent Westgard, Bayat, and Westgard paper published in Clin Chim Acta had a one digit error. But that error cascaded throughout the paper. Here are the corrections.

It's time to change your tune on QC Frequency

Determining your QC frequency used to be the reserve of the few and highly sophisticated. It's time we made some calculators available so the rest of the world can do it.