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Essays:  Myths of Quality Putting Quality into Quality Control  Assuring Quality through Total Quality Management  Trends in Quality management: Utilization and Outcomes  Quality Goals, Requirements, & Specifications  Future Directions in Quality Control  The Myth of Medical Decision Limits  Quality by Design  Tools and Technology for QC Training  Education and Training for Analytical Quality Management, Part I Mapping the Road to Analytical Quality with Charts of Operating Specifications  QC - Back to Basics  Quality and Commerce  Method Validation: The Inner, Hidden, Deeper Secret Meaning   Principles of QC Planning for Immunoassays Education and Training for Analytical Quality Management, Part III Electronic QC and the Total Testing Process From Rules and Tools to Technology and Training The Beijing Abstract Points of Care in using Statistics in Method-Comparison Studies Quality Requirements: The Debate Heats Up! Z-Stats: Those #$%!@ Statistics The Need for a System of Quality Standards What's wrong with traditional Quality Control? To be Uncertain or In Error? That is the question Quality Control 2000: What changes are needed? Education & Training for Analytical Quality Managerment, Part IV: Internet Tools for Training The Do's and Don'ts of Quality Control The Abbott Consent Decree: A Wake-Up Call for Laboratories WQC Y2K: Plans, Predictions & Predicaments Sage advice on New Approaches to QC EZ Rules for easier operation Who will care for quality tomorrow? Quality is Job 1 when the Rubber meets the Road Errors in Reasoning about Laboratory Errors Six Sigma Quality Management Six Sigma and Requisite Laboratory QC

2001: Year of the Odyssey EZ Runs Preview CLIA Postponed again and again and again Repeated, repeated, got lucky! Six Sigma Staffing Strategies Technology for Implementing QC Right $aving the Cost$ of Poor Quality (Six Sigma) Has Quality been "Enronned"? Why not Evidence-Based Method Specifications? Quality: "I think I got it!" Cooking the Books: Does it happen in the lab? A momentous happening - CLIA QC clearance Signs of Six Sigma Good Data Wanted - Bad Data Need Not Apply The Final, final, final, final , final CLIA Rule The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth It's an Honor: Personal Reflection on being a Teacher 2004 JCAHO Patient Safety Goals: What they mean ISO Says So: NCCLS recommendations for Validation of User QC Medical Errors: Complexity and its solutions Giving Thanks to 2003: Some Observations on the State of Quality Management Autoverification: Taking QC to the next level - is that up or down? Think Straight, Talk Straight Quality Management - the Gospel according to ISO More on CLIA and "Quality-Less Compliance" Testing Equivalent Quality: A Better Way The Final Word on the Final Rule? Maryland General Hospital, Part I: Cracks in the System Maryland General Hospital, Part II: Facts of the Scandal Maryland General Hospital, Part III: Broken Windows Connecting the Dots Maryland General, Part IV: Inadequate Inspections? Maryland General, Part V: Tip of the Iceberg? The Quality of Laboratory Testing, Part I Remarks at the G2 Conference: "No Lab Left Behind" Vioxx and Values, Vaccines and Votes The Quality of Laboratory Testing, Part II: Methodology The Quality of Cholesterol Testing Bah, Humbug! A Look Back at 2004 The Quality of Glucose Testing The Quality of Calcium Testing Blowing the Whistle on the Tip of the Iceberg

Six Sigma lessons:  Six Sigma Basics Six Sigma Quality Management Six Sigma and Requisite Laboratory QC Six Sigma: Outcome Measurement of Process Performance Six Sigma: Quality Design and Control Processes Six Sigma: General attributes of the OPSpecs Design Tool (See also: QC Applications) Interview with a Black Belt: Quest Diagnostics Interview with a Black Belt: CAMC & GE Medical Systems Interview: Process Metrics "Un-belted" Six Sigma Calculator! Signs of Six Sigma From Method Performance Claims to Six Sigma Metrics From Precision Claims to Six Sigma Metrics

Downloads:  See also the Demo Page EZ Rules(r) 3 demos QC Validator(r) 2.0 tutorials and demos Quality Planning worksheets Normalized OPSpecs charts "Westgard Rules" worksheet Six Sigma Method Decision Chart

Basic QC Practices lessons:  QC - The Idea  QC - The Levey-Jennings Chart  QC - The Materials  QC - The Calculations  QC - The Chances of Rejection  QC - The Out-of-Control Problem  QC - The Multirule Intrepretation  QC - The Reports "Westgard Rules": Abuses, misuses and "In-excuses" "Westgard Rules" Best Practices

Basic Method Validation lessons:  MV - Selecting a Method to Validate MV - The Experimental Plan MV - The Replication Experiment MV - The Comparison of Methods Experiment MV - The Data Analysis Tool Kit MV - The Decision on Method Performance MV - The Linearity or Reportable Range Experiment MV - The Interference & Recovery Experiments MV - The Need for Standard Processes and Standards of Quality MV - The Detection Limit MV - Reference Interval Transference

QC Planning lessons:  QP 1: A Wake-Up Call for Quality Management QP 2: Assuring Quality through TQM QP 3: Complying with Regulations, Standards, and Practices Guidelines QP 4: Devising a Practical Process QP 5: Defining Quality Requirements QP 6: Using OPSpecs Charts to Plan Quality QP 7: Formulating a Total Quality Control Strategy QP 8: Using Normalized OPSpecs to Plan Quality QP 9: Practice makes Proficient QP 10:Automated Chemistry applications QP 11: Blood Gas applications QP 12: Immunoassay applications QP 13: Coagulations applications QP 14: What's wrong with quality control? QP 15: FAQ's about quality planning

Other Lessons: What is QC Validator?  Starting a QC Planning Process  Power Function Graphs  Critical-Error Graphs  OPSpecs Charts  Quality Planning Models  Total Quality Control (TQC) Strategies  Normalized OPSpecs Charts  QC Selection Grids  The Automatic QC Selection Engine The Area Under a Table It's About Time!

Z-Stats (Basic Statistics) lessons:  Z-1: Aligning attitudes through purpose Z-2: An organizer of statistical terms, part I Z-3: An organizer of statistical terms, part II Z-4: Mean, standard deviation and coefficient of variation Z-5: Sum of squares, variance, and the standard error of the mean Z-6: Probability and the standard error of the mean Z-7: Hypothesis testing, tests of significance, and confidence intervals Z-8: Two-Sample and Directional Hypothesis Testing Z-9: Truth or consequences for a statistical test of significance Z-10: ANOVA - The analysis of variance Z-11: Confidence Intervals Z-12: Correlation and least squares analysis Z-13: Least-squares regression model Z-14: Estimating analytical errors using regression statistics

CLIA Final[5] Rule:  Part I: Key Changes Part II: Perplexity about Complexity and Personnel Part III: QC - Compliance or Quality? Part VI: The New Method Validation Regulations Part V: Method Validation Process & Procedures Part VI: Statistical Sense, Sensitivity and Significance Part VII: "Equivalent" QC Procedures Part VIII: Interpretive Guidelines Part IX: Appropriate QC Procedures Part X: Lies, Damn Lies, and "Equivalent QC" Practices CLIA analytical quality requirements More on CLIA and "Quality-Less Compliance" Testing Equivalent Quality: A Better Way The Final Word on the Final Rule? Hearings on Untruth and Unquality, Part I: Cracks The Scientific Rationale for "Equivalent QC" from CMS? Challenging the CMS Scientific Rationale

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