Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Can you guess just how bad US healthcare is at making the right diagnosis?
Is the error rate in the US related to diagnosis
5%?
10%?
6 to 17%?
all of the above?
The answer, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
An interesting abstract was published at the Paris IFCC meeting. It detailed the EQA performance of a set of 12 public laboratories in Catalonia. Can you guess what the failure rate for these labs for biochemistry EQA?
14.5%
14%
3%
none of the above
The answer, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
As some of you know, this year's new "Westgard Wear" novelty was not a piece of clothing, nor a Bobblehead, but instead an 8GB USB thumb drive:
But if you look at this picture of two of the thumb drives, is there anything that jumps out at you?
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