Posted by Sten Westgard, MSIn June of this year, Zoe Brooks presented an AACC-sponsored webinar with the title, Laboratory QC: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice. During this webinar, Zoe presented a poll and more than 100 participants responded. The results are very interesting...
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Posted by Sten Westgard, MS and James O. Westgard, PhDAs reported elsewhere on the website, several of the symposiums this year were on standardization and harmonization for various analytes. This year, however, there was an added note of urgency. For many laboratorians, standardization seems like a somewhat esoteric subject, important but not necessarily pressing. But with the expectation of widespread implementation of electronic medical records, the problems with “comparability” of test results (and analytical methods) are about to become stark.
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