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Pop Quiz: what's the EQA failure rate of laboratories?

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

An interesting abstract was published at the Paris IFCC meeting. It detailed the EQA performance of a set of 12 public laboratories in Catalonia. Can you guess what the failure rate for these labs for biochemistry EQA?

  • 14.5%
  • 14%
  • 3%
  • none of the above

The answer, after the jump...

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New Publication: Useful measures and models for quality

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Coming to Croatia: Zagreb's EFLM course

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Setting specifications for setting specifications for...

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Budgets aren't the only things getting squeezed in the lab...

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Q&A: 10 Questions on QC from the first webinar

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Sigma-metrics in Korea PT

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Are there new (Erna Lenters-)"Westra Rules" for HbA1c?

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Multisite Analysis of AST performance and goals

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

At the AACC/ASCLS conference in San Diego, many of the Sigma VP laboratories contributed to a poster on evaluating the applicability of various analytical performance specifications for AST:

Multisite study of AST analytical performance reveals disparities in global performance specifications

The full poster can be downloaded from our westgard.com download section here. (free membership required)

But what was most rewarding was meeting with many of the co-authors who came to the meeting.

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Ms Ginny Foo, Mr. Rajkumar Rengaraju, Co-authors from Innovative Diagnostics, Singapore

more pictures after the jump

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New Paper: Risk-Based QC Strategies with Six Sigma Nomograms

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Pop Quiz: which method would you accept?

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

So here's a Normalized Method Decision chart for a cholesterol method.

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Which method would you choose?

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Losing ground on HbA1c

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Wanted: Data that's live

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New Paper on MU, TE, and the unnecessary struggle

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Are performance specifications based on biological variation for hemostatis unfit-for-purpose?

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AACC comments on Proposed New CLIA goals

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NY Times Editorial Focuses on Failures in Medical Device Regulation

A recent New York Times Sunday editorial focused on the deplorable state of medical device regulation. We simply can no longer trust FDA clearances, particularly 510ks:

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Six Sigma Metrics ... Surging in China

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EFLM database: 78 steps forward, 272 steps back

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Cut Your QC! Free webinar 9/25/26 11 am cst

After premiering this event at ADLM, we are opening it up to everyone through zoom. Please join us September 25th, at 11 am central standard time. At last, a frank look at why we need to do less QC, and how we can make those reductions safely.  If you enjoy being out of control every day, if you get a thrill every time you have to repeat a con...

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