Resources
COVID19 Coverage
For over a year, Westgard QC has provided free articles on method validation, laboratory testing and QC that are helpful to methods in use to detect COVID19 and SARS-CoV-2. Also included are lab stories from around the world.
The Facts, The Challenges, The Crisis:
- This is not a Test https://www.westgard.com/covid19-this-is-not-a-test.htm
- Sprinting into a marathon: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-marathon.htm
- Serology Selection Shortlist (no longer supported): https://www.westgard.com/serology-eua-shortlist.htm
- Key Facts in COVID-19: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-test-test-test.htm
- Maintaining Quality in a Crisis: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-maintaining-quality.htm
- COVID19 in '21: Are we there yet? https://www.westgard.com/covid19-there-yet.htm
The Tools:
- Clinical Agreement for Qualitative Testing: https://www.westgard.com/qualitative-test-clinical-agreement.htm
- Clinical Agreement Calculator: http://tools.westgard.com/two-by-two-contingency.shtml
- Prevalence and Predictive Value: https://www.westgard.com/predictive-value.htm
- Predictive Value calculator: http://tools.westgard.com/predictive.shtml
- Probit Analysis, Part 1: https://www.westgard.com/probit-part-one.htm
- Probit Analysis, Part 2: https://www.westgard.com/probit-part-two.htm
- Secrets of Screening Assays QC: https://www.westgard.com/secrets-screening-qc.htm
Tales from the Labs: Front Line Stories of the Pandemic:
- In the Center of the (US) Storm, Northwell, NY, and COVID19: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-interview-sam-reichberg.htm
- Second City, First Wave. Chicago's RUSH hospital and COVID19: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-interview-nicholas-moore.htm
- Multicare Health System: An 8-hospital system faces the virus in Washington State: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-interview-multicare.htm
- Three Waves of Virus at Winchester Medical Center: https://www.westgard.com/3-waves-winchester-covid19.htm
- The View from St. Petersburg, A Russian experience: https://www.westgard.com/helix-labs-covid19.htm
- Cedars-Sinai and the Early Wave of COVID19: https://www.westgard.com/covid-19-interview-kimia-sobhani.htm
QC for SARS-COV-2
- A Downside to Negative Controls for SARS-COV-2 testing? https://www.westgard.com/covid19-negative-control-qc-challenges.htm