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Zhongshan Hospital Pilot Verification of Performance

Zhongshan Hospital has received its re-verification. The second laboratory in China to achieve the Verification of Performance (Sigma VP) on a pilot basis. It is also the first hospital to achieve Sigma VP through the guidance of QuaLab, our strategic partner

Zhongshan Hospital - Sigma Verification of Performance

Verified since November 2016
Re-Verification: January 1st, 2018
Duration of Verification: January 1st, 2018 through December 31, 2018

Westgard QC was pleased to re-verify the performance of 20 assays and add on 3 more assays in a continuing pilot project at Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China.

 Pilot Sigma Verification of Performance for Zhongshan Hospital

Sten Westgard is pictured here with Professor Pan, Laboratory Director.

Zhongshan Hospital is a major teaching hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health of China. It was founded in 1937 in commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer in the Chinese democratic revolution. Affiliated to the State Medical College of Shanghai, it was then the first large hospital run by the Chinese.

Through 76 years of development, Zhongshan Hospital now has 1,700 beds serving 84,000 inpatients and 3,111,000 outpatients and emergency in 2013. Among its 3,433 medical staffs are 437 professors and associate professors, 1,219 physicians, 1,340 nurses, 401 technicians, 1 member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The pilot verification was completed on a Cobas 6000. The list of 20 analytes verified include

Assay

Verified

Alkaline Phosphatase

Six Sigma

ALT

Six Sigma

Amylase

Six Sigma

AST

Six Sigma

Direct Bilirubin

Six Sigma

Total Bilirubin

Six Sigma

Calcium

Four Sigma

Total Cholesterol

Four Sigma

Creatinine

Six Sigma

HDL

Four Sigma

LDL

Four Sigma

Creatinine Kinase

Six Sigma

GGT

Six Sigma

Glucose

Five Sigma

Iron

Five Sigma

LDH

Six Sigma

Lipase

Five Sigma

Magnesium

Six Sigma

Phosphorous

Four Sigma

Potassium

Six Sigma

Total Protein

Four Sigma

Triglycerides

Five Sigma

Uric Acid

Six Sigma

Performance of Zhongshan Hospital

2017 RE VP Zhongshan NMEDX

Congratulations to Zhongshan Hospital on their accomplishment.

 Zhongshan Hospitals Sigma VP ceremony