Basic QC Practices
Is QC in the Middle-East above average? Are the practices there exceeding the global usual? Or are they worse than the rest of the world? The results are in.
Has QC in the USA gotten better or worse? Are trends in consolidation, automation, POC-ization, and the waiving-waiving-waiving of methods had an impact on how quality control is practiced in US laboratories? The results are in.
Fighting the pandemic is hard enough. Do we have to struggle with the QC on negative controls for SARS-COV-2 assays too?
The results are in! More than 600 laboratories from more than 100 countries around the globe answered the 2021 Westgard survey on QC practices. How are labs really performing quality control? The answers may surprise you.
Our review of several publications on pre-analytical quality finds that the convergence of world pre-analytical quality is upon us. That, and the plateau is real.