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NEW! Risk Analysis Guidelines Analysis

Get an overview of ISO standards 15189, 14971, and 22367 and CLSI guidelines EP18, EP22, and EP23. With Risk Management coming into medical laboratories, now is the time to learn these important Risk Analysis concepts recommended by these documents.
Introduction to Risk Analysis

New standards and guidelines for Quality are heading toward the lab, based on Risk Management principles. Learn all about them now.
Quality Management and Design of Analytical Systems (An Introduction)

Quality Planning and Design are part of a larger systems approach to analytical management. in this new six lesson course, participants will review current guidelines for quality and learn to use QC Design tools to customize their procedures and achieve the quality required by their tests.

Basic QC Practices
Our most popular course, covering the fundamentals of quality control in the laboratory.

Basic Method Validation
This course teaches all the experiments and calculations needed for a basic validation of a new instrument. Linearity, Reportable Range, Comparison of Methods, Correlation, Replication, Interference, Recovery, Detection Limit and Reference Range studies are explained and demonstrated. Educational online tools allow participants to enter data and view results immediately.

Secrets of Method Validation Streaming Video course
A short animated slide show, narrated by Dr. Westgard, explaining the Inner, Hidden, Deeper, Secret Meaning of Method Validation

"Westgard Rules" and Levey-Jennings short course
Everything you ever wanted to know - and were afraid to ask - is included in this online course. All the rules, combinations, and interpretations are included. Online graphing tools allow you to enter data and see the interpretation.

Westgard QC, Inc. was the first company to offer accredited online courses through both the AACC and ASCLS. More than a thousand participants from over 30 countries have taken our online courses.

January 03, 2018

Wanted: Data that's live

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

For many years, I have asked politely for performance data from diagnostic manufacturers. You would be surprised by the number of companies that refuse or ignore my requests. Even though performance data is fundamental to the selection of an instrument, most diagnostic manufacturers exercise an information asymmetry with their customers - they know far more about the actual precision and trueness of their methods than any of their customers. And yet they rarely share this vital data. So I'm trying to break this impasse by going directly to YOU, and YOUR LAB - you are undoubtedly operating an instrument someone else is curious to learn about. I'm even willing to provide an incentive: data for books, online courses, or possibly even training, if you are willing to share (anonymously of course).

To that end I have set up [email protected] as my contact point for labs open to sharing real-world performance data.

For this first effort, I am seeking labs that operate the Mindray BS biochemistry instrument line (I am not making this up). So if you're willing to share your chemistry assay performance on the BS-120, BS-200, BS-380, BS-600, BS-800, all the way up to to the high volume BS-2000, I'm interested...

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