What's New on Westgard Web: January 2020

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

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

Congratulations, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Core Lab

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Core Lab becomes the latest laboratory in the USA to join the Sigma Verification Program (VP).

The first lab in Los Angeles to verify their Sigma metric performance, the largest set of methods submitted by a single laboratory to date

More, after the flip...

Multimode Sigma metric assessment of Beckman Coulter DxC 700


Continuing in our assessment of instruments and performance specifications, we take a look at a new online paper on the DxC 700.

Can the DxC 700 hit the desirable goals for performance from EuBIVAS? Ricos? Or is the analyzer more suited to CLIA goals?
 

Special Report: New Quality Guidelines and Standards from ASVCP


A comprehensive, free set of guidelines and standards (77 Pages!) is now available from ASVCP. Not only is this a great help for veterinary laboratories, but it's a concise summary of QC and Six Sigma tools that apply to any laboratory.

Six Sigma and Westgard Rules aren't just for people anymore

 

New Year, New Goals


Allowable total error goals are changing. Desirable specifications derived from the EFLM EuBIVAS database have been updated.

Are the latest goals getting bigger or smaller?

 

Save the Date: May 11-12, 2020, Antwerp


Join us at the 19th Antwerp Quality in the Spotlight Conference: Dr. James Westgard will speak, as well as Annette Thomas (from WEQAS), Anne Stavelin (from NOKLUS), Esther Talboom and Maarten Kok (from Saltro), Ivan Branslund and Ina Mathilde Kjaer (from SDU), Sharon Ehrmeyer (from UW), Stacy Walz (from Astate), Sten Westgard (from Westgard QC), Kathy Freeman (from Syn Labs VPG) and others. High quality topics, vigorous debates, infamous limerick contests, and more.

And of course, the infamous QC Limerick contest...