QC Design
The Need for a Mean Rule: Designing QC for Phosphorus
Here's a question about "Westgard Rules" that we get a LOT: "Does the violation of the 10x rule mean anything? Can we ignore it?" At the heart of this question is another, deeper question: what QC rules are actually necessary to assure the quality of a method? With the help of user-submitted data on a phosphorus method, we'll take a closer look at this question.