Guest Essay
We were grateful to have Dr. Kathleen Freeman provide us with a review of a recent HbA1c bias issue in the NHS. Now the principals have responded to her article, giving us more insight into the scope and danger of the issue.
55,000 NHS patients in the UK were misdiagnosed with diabetes due to instrument bias. Is there anything labs can learn from this?
A new edition of EP46 has been published. Thie guideline focuses on Determining allowable total error goals and aligns with the CLSI EP21 guideline on calculating total error. Dr. Paulo Pereira, heavily involved in the creation of these documents, provides us a quick introduction.
In an extended review of the new CLSI EP21 standard, Dr. Paulo Pereira discusses how this guideline reaffirms total analytical error as the primary principle for quantitative performance assessment.
Metrology is hard enough - but are we sure we're speaking the same language when we discuss it?