Tools, Technologies and Training for Healthcare Laboratories

Save the Date: September 12-13 2-Day Master Class

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Save the Date: September 14: 1 day Master Seminar

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Save the date: September 10-11, Santiago, Chile

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A Global Six Sigma Survey

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For more than 18 years, we've been talking about Six Sigma.

Now we want to hear from you!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SPSWG8Z

To help motivate you, we're offering several prizes to randomly selected survey participants. The prizes include...

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Westgard on YouTube, AACC Philadelphia 2017

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Muchas Gracias, Mexico City

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Muchas Gracias, Panama City!

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Muchas Gracias, Medellin!

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Thanks to our hosts, our partnets, and our participants in Medellin, Colombia!

(more, after the jump)

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New Paper: Risk-Based QC Strategies with Six Sigma Nomograms

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Multisite Analysis of AST performance and goals

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At the AACC/ASCLS conference in San Diego, many of the Sigma VP laboratories contributed to a poster on evaluating the applicability of various analytical performance specifications for AST:

Multisite study of AST analytical performance reveals disparities in global performance specifications

The full poster can be downloaded from our westgard.com download section here. (free membership required)

But what was most rewarding was meeting with many of the co-authors who came to the meeting.

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Ms Ginny Foo, Mr. Rajkumar Rengaraju, Co-authors from Innovative Diagnostics, Singapore

more pictures after the jump

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Are there new (Erna Lenters-)"Westra Rules" for HbA1c?

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Sigma-metrics in Korea PT

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Budgets aren't the only things getting squeezed in the lab...

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Coming to Lima, May 17-18, Intercal 2017

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Q & A: Is this a 4:1s violation?

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We got the following question emailed to the website recently:

Greetings, I was [wondering] if the following case represents [violation] of 4 1s rule?

Control (A) point 1= EXCEEDS 2 SD /-2 SD lines >> warning

Control (A) point 2= WITHIN 2 SD/-2 SD lines >> accepted

Control (A) point 3= EXCEEDS 2 SD /-2 SD lines >> warning

Control (A) point 4= WITHIN 2 SD/-2 SD lines >> rejection

all the point[s] on the same side of the mean.

What do you think? The answer, after the jump

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Thank you, Haerbin!

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A new Sigma-metric software program!

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Q & A: The basis of bias%?

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Thank you, Hanoi

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Exclusive Sigma VP Consultants in China: QuaLab

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