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Invitation for Patient Percentile Monitoring 16 Jun 2013 | 08:14 pm
Dr. Dietmar Stöckl and Dr. Linda Thienpont are embarking on an ambitious new project of performance monitoring. This is an open invitation for the pilot stage of an exciting new effort at using patien...
Cancer Markers on the Vista, Second Look 5 Jun 2013 | 11:32 pm
Another chance to get a second look at instrument performance. Over a year ago, we looked at cancer marker performance on the Vista. Now we examine a 2012 study that compared the method performance of...
Would your lab have caught this error? 2 Jun 2013 | 05:06 pm
For all its ubiquity in the lab, proper QC isn't easy. Even though every laboratory has to perform Quality Control, that hasn't made the task any simpler. It still relies on the right mean, the right ...
Will Bad Risk drive out Good QC? 16 Oct 2012 | 11:47 pm
With the expiration date on EQC drawing ever closer, US labs still await the details about its replacement. While CLSI EP23 has been public for more than a year, and CMS has made press releases about ...
Hitchhiker's Guide to Measurement Uncertainty (MU) in Clinical Laboratories 5 Apr 2012 | 07:47 am
Dr. Graham White provides an explanation of measurement uncertainty (MU), its role in the clinical laboratory, and the advantages it has over the use of total error.
New Year, New Goals, New Risks 25 Jan 2012 | 08:27 am
There are many changes in store for the laboratory in 2012. Are they good changes? risky changes? Will these changes get us closer to our ultimate goals? The two Westgards look ahead.
How is Risk Assessed? 17 Nov 2009 | 07:01 am
One of the critical early steps of Risk Management is Risk Assessment. There are a multitude of approaches to Risk Assessment, with varying degrees of complexity. Dr. Westgard examines the different a...
Free Membership (It's Free) 19 Aug 2009 | 03:26 am
Probably the feature users will like least about the new Westgard Web is membership. In order to access some articles on the website, you'll need to become a member and login when you visit the websit...
Desirable Biological Variation Database specifications 18 Feb 2009 | 06:46 am
Updated for 2012! Desirable Specifications for imprecision, inaccuracy, and total allowable error, calculated from data on within-subject and between-subject biologic variation. This database is upda...
Westgard Training 16 Feb 2009 | 11:59 am
For those who seek to learn about "Westgard Rules", Quality Control, and other topics about Laboratory Quality Management, Westgard QC can provide the best training, either through books, online cours...
