What's New on Westgard Web: January 2020

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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 22, 2020

What's New on Westgard Web: January 2020

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

Here's what's new at Westgard Web this month:

Congratulations, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Core Lab

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Core Lab becomes the latest laboratory in the USA to join the Sigma Verification Program (VP).

The first lab in Los Angeles to verify their Sigma metric performance, the largest set of methods submitted by a single laboratory to date

More, after the flip...

Multimode Sigma metric assessment of Beckman Coulter DxC 700

Continuing in our assessment of instruments and performance specifications, we take a look at a new online paper on the DxC 700.

Can the DxC 700 hit the desirable goals for performance from EuBIVAS? Ricos? Or is the analyzer more suited to CLIA goals?

Special Report: New Quality Guidelines and Standards from ASVCP

A comprehensive, free set of guidelines and standards (77 Pages!) is now available from ASVCP. Not only is this a great help for veterinary laboratories, but it's a concise summary of QC and Six Sigma tools that apply to any laboratory.

Six Sigma and Westgard Rules aren't just for people anymore

New Year, New Goals

Allowable total error goals are changing. Desirable specifications derived from the EFLM EuBIVAS database have been updated.

Are the latest goals getting bigger or smaller?

Save the Date: May 11-12, 2020, Antwerp

Join us at the 19th Antwerp Quality in the Spotlight Conference: Dr. James Westgard will speak, as well as Annette Thomas (from WEQAS), Anne Stavelin (from NOKLUS), Esther Talboom and Maarten Kok (from Saltro), Ivan Branslund and Ina Mathilde Kjaer (from SDU), Sharon Ehrmeyer (from UW), Stacy Walz (from Astate), Sten Westgard (from Westgard QC), Kathy Freeman (from Syn Labs VPG) and others. High quality topics, vigorous debates, infamous limerick contests, and more.

And of course, the infamous QC Limerick contest...