Tools, Technologies and Training for Healthcare Laboratories

What's New: October 2013

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

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

Could this QC get you fired?


A QC outlier mysteryOne of our readers submitted a very interesting scenario: a mysterious discrepancy between the instrument records and LIS records of QC values. Do you think you can solve the case of the "out-and-in-control" QC?

Is this QC sending you to repeat or redundancy?


Three POC glucose devices for the neonatal ICU


Are POC BGMs acceptable for NICUs? As part of our continuing series of evaluations, we take a look at  three point-of-care (POC) blood glucose meters (BGMs). We examine the results of a paper that studied BGM use in a specific critical  setting: the neonatal intensive care unit

Should we totally go to the max with Total Analytic Error?


Albumin Quality: Can any method hit the mark?


Can anyone hit the mark with their potassium method? Continuing with our series examining quality requirements and goals and the performance of different methods, we set our sites on albumin. We examine the different goals offered for albumin, and evaluate what methods are capable of achieving.

Can any method hit the target for Albumin?

 

PLUS!

Dr. David Burnett's new book: A practical guide to ISO 15189 in Laboratory Medicine
 

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