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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.

April 06, 2018

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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

The Quality in the Spotlight meeting is not just notable for its Westgard Award, for its Limerick Contest, but there are also lectures you will hear at this meeting that you'll never hear elsewhere. The other conferences play the politics, give only the most official, approved lectures. Quality in the Spotlight is a chance to hear some unvarnished truth.

Hassan Bayat gave a lecture explaining how to convert Curt Parvin's model into a practical tool: nomograms that can visually determine the QC frequency. His grasp of the MaxE(Nuf) model is probably second only to Curt Parvin - and I found his lecture to be one of the most understandable on the subject.

For us, it was a great chance to meet Hassan - we had collaborated on a paper but hadn't had a face to face meeting while we were writing it. This is one of those wonders of the Internet age. But it's always better to spend time together in person.