Risk, Error and Uncertainty: Laboratory Quality Management in the Age of Metrology
March 2017: Westgard, Armbruster and Westgard editors are proud to announce a special issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine.
Risk, Error and Uncertainty
Laboratory Quality Management in the Age of Metrology
2017, 241 pages, 9" by 6" hardcover [also available as an ePub]
ISSN 0272-2712
ISBN-13 978-323-47743-7
List price: $98.89
In 15 concise chapters, the great debate of our laboratory age, on risk and quality, on measurement uncertainty and total analytical error, and more, is discussed by a distinguished set of 37 experts:
- Measuring Analytical Quality: Total Analytical Error Versus Measurement Uncertainty
- Uncertainty in Measurement and Total Error: Tools for Coping with Diagnostic Uncertainty
- Rhetoric Versus Reality? Laboratory Surveys Show Actual Practice Differs Considerably from Proposed Models and Mandated Calculations
- Biologic Variation Approach to Daily Laboratory Operation
- Understanding the Use of Sigma Metrics in Hemoglobin A1c Analysis
- State-of-the-Art Approach to Goal-Setting
- Six Sigma Quality Management and Design of Risk-based Statistical Quality Control
- Sigma Metrics Across the Total Testing Process
- Metrological Traceability of Assays and Comparability of Patient Test Results
- A Total Quality Control Plan with Right-Sized Statistical Quality Control
- Accreditation of Individualized Quality Control Plans bythe College of American Pathologists
- Sunway Medical Laboratory Control Plans Based on Six Sigma, Risk Management and Uncertainty
- Applying Sigma Metrics to Reduce Outliers
- Quality Indicators for the Total Testing Process
- Using Sigma Quality Control to Verify and Monitor Performance in a Multi-Instrument, Multisite Integrated Health Care Network
About the Authors
EDITORS
JAMES O. WESTGARD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of
Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin; Westgard QC, Inc, Madison,
Wisconsin
DAVID ARMBRUSTER, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Director, Clinical Chemistry, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois
STEN A. WESTGARD, MS
Director, Client Services and Technology, Westgard QC, Inc, Madison, Wisconsin
AUTHORS
VIRTUDES ALVAREZ, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
ADA AITA, Biol Sci
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy
DAVID ARMBRUSTER, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Director, Clinical Chemistry, Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, Illinois
CARMEN BIOSCA, PhD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
RAQUEL BLAZQUEZ, MD
Programa de Supervision Externa de la Calidad y Comision de Garantıa de Calidad del
Laboratorio Clı´nico, Spanish Association of Pharmaceutical Analists (AEFA), Madrid,
Spain
BEATRIZ BONED, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
FERNANDO CAVA, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
NAVAPUN CHARURUKS, MD, FRCPath (Thailand)
Laboratory Department, Bumrungrad International Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand
Risk, Error and Uncertainty: Laboratory Quality Management in the Age of Metrology
ZORAIDA CORTE, PhD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
JORGE DIAZ-GARZON, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
EMMA ENGLISH, PhD
Lecturer in Health Science, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Health Science,
University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom
PILAR FERNANDEZ-CALLE, PhD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
PILAR FERNANDEZ-FERNANDEZ, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
JOSE VICENTE GARCIA-LARIO, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
ELISABET GONZALEZ, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
HAROLD H. HARRISON, MD, PhD, FACB, FCAP
Director of Clinical Pathology, Geisinger Health System, Danville, Pennsylvania
GERALD A. HOELTGE, MD, FCAP
Checklist Commissioner, College of American Pathologists, Northfield, Illinois
JAMUNA JAIRAMAN, BSc, MPH
Senior Manager, Allied Health Support, Pathology Laboratory Department, Sunway
Medical Centre, Selangor, Malaysia
JAY B. JONES, PhD, D(ABCC), FACB
Director (Ret.), Clinical Chemistry, Geisinger Regional Laboratories, Danville,
Pennsylvania
JOSEP M. JOU, MD
Comite de Estandarizacion. Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SEHH),
Madrid, Spain
ERNA LENTERS-WESTRA, PhD
HbA1c Researcher, European Reference Laboratory for Glycohemoglobin, Clinical
Chemistry Department, Isala, Zwolle, The Netherlands
LEE SUAN LI, BSc
Senior Medical Laboratory Scientist, Pathology Laboratory Department, Sunway Medical
Centre, Selangor, Malaysia
JOSEPH LITTEN, PhD
Corporate Technical and Development Manager, Laboratory, Valley Health, Winchester,
Virginia
JOANA MINCHINELA, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
JORGE MORANCHO, MD
Programa de Supervision Externa de la Calidad y Comision de Garantıa de Calidad del
Laboratorio Clınico, Spanish Association of Pharmaceutical Analists (AEFA), Madrid,
Spain
CARMEN PERICH, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
MARIO PLEBANI, MD
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy
ENRIQUE PRADA, MD
Comite de Calidad, Gestion, Seguridad y Evidencia. Spanish Association of Medical
Biopathology-Laboratory Medicine (AEBM-LM), Madrid, Spain
FRANCISCO RAMON, MD
Comite´ de Programas Externos de la Calidad, Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
CARMEN RICOS, PhD
Comite de Programas Externos de la Calidad, Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
ZARINAH SAKIMAN, BSc
Assistant Manager, Pathology Laboratory Department, Sunway Medical Centre,
Selangor, Malaysia
ANGEL SALAS, MD
Comite de Programas Externos de la Calidad, Spanish Society of Clinical Chemistry and
Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
LAURA SCIACOVELLI, Biol Sci
Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospital of Padova, Padova, Italy
MARGARITA SIMO N, MD
Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEQC), Commission of Analytical Quality,
Barcelona, Padilla, Spain
ELVAR THEODORSSON, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical and Experimental Medicine,
Linkoping University, Linkoping, Sweden
JAMES O. WESTGARD, PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of
Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin; Westgard QC, Inc, Madison,
Wisconsin
STEN A. WESTGARD, MS
Director, Client Services and Technology, Westgard QC, Inc, Madison, Wisconsin