Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
I was blessed enough to spend the week in China during Laboratory Professionals Week: training, lecturing, q & a’ing. Celebrating one laboratory’s verification of performance Not just celebrating with labs but I hope empowering them to achieve even better results in the future.
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
posted by Sten Westgard, MS
The Unacceptable Issue
This issue of the Westgard Newsletter is devoted to exploring the rejections, the abnormals, the outliers - in other words, the Unacceptable performance and practices of the laboratory.
At the LabQuality Conference in Helsinki, Mark Thelen of SKML made a very trenchant observation: We should not punish laboratories for the failures of the manufacturers. Analytical performance specifications derived from biological variation studies, both old and new, may be too demanding for today's methods.
We may use these new biological variation-derived goals to determine when the laboratory is performing unacceptably. But if no labs and no methods are able to achieve this goal, then perhaps we need to realize the manufacturers are the ones performing unacceptably - by failing to engineer methods good enough to meet the necessary goals.
We often see conferences, workshops, and meetings that proclaim the reinvention of Quality Control, the revolution, the next-generation, the "2.0" of QC. But more importantly, we may need to redefine what is UNacceptable for today's laboratories.
How LabQuality Days tackled the subject of reinventing QC
Are today's hemostasis METHODS unacceptable? Or are today's GOALS for hemostasis goals unattainable?
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
An opportunity to demonstrate your patient impact! If we face the reality that the laboratory future must involve a closer interaction with clinical care and outcomes, here's an award that focuses on that very thing. Demonstrate how your lab results improve care and benefit patients, and your healthcare organization will receive and award from a consortium of AACC, IFCC, HIMSS, Modern Healthcare and more: https://lnkd.in/dGBz5Fq hashtag#Univants hashtag#labfuture
[full disclosure: this award is sponsored in part by Abbott Diagnostics, a company with which Westgard QC has business.]
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Thanks to the IBT Biokimya kongres and particularly Dr Sedef Yenice for hosting me in Bodrum Turkey. We had a great Masterclass workshop on QC and Six Sigma. I also had the honor of giving a plenary lecture on the new tools for QC frequency. Wonderful weather. Wonderful location. Wonderful people. hashtagsixsigma hashtagqc hashtagwestgardrules
Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Thrilled to find a strong new partner in Ecuador and Peru. After several visits to both countries, we have partnered with a local company to help expand the Westgard training and techniques as quickly and broadly as possible.
“QIE Quality Institute Erroch firma convenio de representación exclusiva con hashtagWestgardQC, para los países de Perú y Ecuador, continuando así su labor de impartir conocimiento de alto nivel en garantía y gestión de calidad.
Felicitaciones a todo el equipo hashtagQIE, el cual continúa trabajando para que la calidad sea tu marca.” 👍😊