Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
Last month, Advance for the Laboratory published a three part series on Six Sigma in the Clinical Laboratory, written by David Plaut, Nathalie Lepage, and Kim Przekop:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
While it's great that Advance has invested in in-depth coverage of the Six Sigma topic, unfortunately one of their examples in part 2 demonstrates a misunderstanding of the application.
See the mistake, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
A recent article about the experience of QMS tracking in a clinical laboratory in Nigeria raised some interesting questions about sources of errors in "developing world" laboratories.
Where would you expect a Nigerian Human Virology laboratory (HVL) to experience the most problems?
pre-analytical processes
analytical processes
post-analytical processes
The answer, after the jump...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS
While traveling in the middle east recently, I was asked by a colleague about the new US IQCP regulations, specifically how to implement them in their foreign laboratory.
Frankly, I was a bit shocked. I didn't realize that anyone outside the US was paying attention to the IQCP roll-out.
But it does raise a good question: Is IQCP a global necessity? Or merely a US idiosyncrasy?
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