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Save the date: August 1st, ASCLS annual meeting

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Save the date: September 10-11, Santiago, Chile

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A Global Six Sigma Survey

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For more than 18 years, we've been talking about Six Sigma.

Now we want to hear from you!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SPSWG8Z

To help motivate you, we're offering several prizes to randomly selected survey participants. The prizes include...

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What's New at Westgard Web: April 2018

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More Amusement from Antwerp

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New Paper on MU, TE, and the unnecessary struggle

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The 2018 Lab Limerick Winners!

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

As several people know, the highlight of the Antwerp Quality in the Spotlight conference is not the Westgard Award, but the "Limerick Challenge" of the evening dinner.

In 2016, there was a scandalous episode of nepotism, which resulted in the winning team containing not only myself ("a" Westgard) but also Jochem Goldschmidt ("a" Goldschmidt, son of the conference organizer). Thus, we received lifetime bans from participating in future Limerick contests. And founds ourselves running the Limerick as Quiz Masters this year.

Since the overall theme of the conference this year was "next generation" - that, too, became the theme of the Limerick contest.

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Here myself and Jochem on the right are presenting the prize (a bottle of champagne, to be consumed that evening)

After the jump... the winners and the winning limerick

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Comparing MU to Ricos Desirable CV: Like comparing an apple to basketball

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

I was looking over a recent study of a compact blood gas analyzer conducted over multiple sites, multiple cartridges, multiple days, etc. In other words, this was a study that was doing a very thorough job.

Then I reached a section where suddenly it all fell to nonsense: measurement uncertainty.

So they calculated measurement uncertainty, but then they compared the results against Ricos desirable imprecision performance specifications.

Huh?

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Theranos loses its head

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What's New: February 2018

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Pop Quiz: How many equations are needed (at minimum) to calculate measurement uncertainty?

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

In Biochemia Medica, a recent article detailed the Minimum requirements for the estimation of measurement uncertainty:Recommendations of the joint Working group for uncertainty of measurement of the CSMBLM and CCMB.

Can you guess how many?

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Thank you KIMS and Kuwait!

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Thank you, Alexandria!

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ICYMI: Theranos receives last minute transfusion

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Remember in 2017 when there were predictions that Theranos wouldn't last out the year?

It appears reports of Theranos' death were greatly exaggerated... or maybe not

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What's New on Westgard Web: January 2018

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Consumer Reports joins the chorus on Biotin warnings

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Wanted: Data that's live

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In memoriam: on the passing of "Evidence-based" and Science-based" discussion

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Westgard on YouTube, AACC Philadelphia 2017

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Muchas Gracias, Mexico City

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