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September 17, 2012

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Kathy Walker

Thanks for the good article.

I agree that it's a losing battle, not to mention concerning in regard to patient care, adjusting SDs frequently. The only time we use "someone else's SD" (manufacturer's) is when we have a new lot# and need a guage on an acceptable starting mean until we can establish our own through multuple runs. Manufacturer's ranges are really just that, a range of means and not a range to be used for any particular lab. What we've discovered with modern instrumentation is that from lot to lot our lab's SDs stay esentially the same. Only the mean must be adjusted and typically only by a slight amount.By the way, 2SD still works for us :).

Randy Sparrow

Great article. We generally use 60 to 100 data points to calculate a new range when working with a new lot #. Aftera while, there may be a shift. Could additional data points be collected, ex: another 60, and a new 2sd established? This will be done only after all other efforts have been looked at to solve the problem.

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