Trends
A mid-marathon rumination on the successes and failures of laboratory testing in the pandemic.
Quality matters in all things. Quality of processes, Quality of controls, even the Quality of Democracy. After the January 6th storming of the US capitol, the weight of history demands we all take stock. (warning: contains politics)
Patient Based Real Time Quality Control (PBRTQC) is the newest trend in the elite laboratories and academic literature. What is it, and is it really ready for prime time?
2020. A dumpster fire of a year. How did labs fare? Was this the year that broke the lab? Or the year that labs shined more than ever? Or both?
It's October 2020. Time to take a hard look at truth, untruth, and the consequences of pretending there's no difference.