Sigma Verification of Performance Program

Zhongshan Hospital has received its re-verification. The second laboratory in China to achieve the Verification of Performance (Sigma VP) on a pilot basis. It is also the first hospital to achieve Sigma VP through the guidance of QuaLab, our strategic partner

Zhongshan Hospital - Sigma Verification of Performance

Verified since November 2016
Re-Verification: January 1st, 2018
Duration of Verification: January 1st, 2018 through December 31, 2018

Westgard QC was pleased to re-verify the performance of 20 assays and add on 3 more assays in a continuing pilot project at Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai, China.

Sten Westgard is pictured here with Professor Pan, Laboratory Director.

Zhongshan Hospital is a major teaching hospital affiliated to the Ministry of Health of China. It was founded in 1937 in commemoration of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer in the Chinese democratic revolution. Affiliated to the State Medical College of Shanghai, it was then the first large hospital run by the Chinese.

Through 76 years of development, Zhongshan Hospital now has 1,700 beds serving 84,000 inpatients and 3,111,000 outpatients and emergency in 2013. Among its 3,433 medical staffs are 437 professors and associate professors, 1,219 physicians, 1,340 nurses, 401 technicians, 1 member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 2 members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

The pilot verification was completed on a Cobas 6000. The list of 20 analytes verified include

Performance of Zhongshan Hospital

Congratulations to Zhongshan Hospital on their accomplishment.