Questions

After record-breaking attendance at the CLIA 2024 GAMECHANGE webinar, there were so many questions, we couldn't answer them all. Here we share some of the questions we didn't have time to answer during the broadcast.

Repeat Patient QC was a well-attended webinar of 2023. But while the speakers answered dozens of questions live, there were dozens more that came in later. Here are the questions and answers that followed the webinar.

Sten Westgard, MS
September 2021

On September 14th, Technopath sponsored a LabRoots webinar on the Un-conventional way to do QC. https://www.labroots.com/webinar/un-conventional-qc-implementing-appropriate-qc-design-strategies-lab

By theory, after you get an out-of-control event, all of those patient specimens that were tested during the run must be repeated. But labs don't really do that.

When you look at the classic Westgard Rules, there's a lesser-known wrinkle in how often some errors are detected.
Review the history of the 1:2s Warning Rule, why it went from rejection to warning, and see why it's now been eliminated from modern Westgard Rules and Westgard Sigma Rules.