Tools, Technologies and Training for Healthcare Laboratories
Home Essays Guest Essay
Guest Essay
Biologic Variation Database, the 2012 update PDF Print E-mail

Dr. Carmen Ricos and colleagues discuss the new additions and updates to the increasingly vital biologic variation database. Now in its 7th edition, the database provides the largest source of information on biological variation, allowable bias and imprecision, and desirable specifications for total allowable error.

Read more...
 
Managing Quality in Networked Laboratories PDF Print E-mail

Designing QC for a single test can be a challenge. Imagine the task of selecting the appropriate QC for more than 70 tests on multiple instruments across multiple laboratories. In this essay, Nuthar Jassam and colleagues describe how this was actually done at a network of laboratories in the UK.

Read more...
 
Dietmar Stockl, QC Reality Check, Part Five PDF Print E-mail

Dr. Dietmar Stockl continues his series on quality control. This article discusses the need for stability and its relationship to the quality requirement.

Read more...
 
Saving money by applying TEa and Six Sigma for internal QC. PDF Print E-mail

Putting Sigma-metrics into action can have tangible results in the laboratory. This guest essay highlights the impact of redesigning QC based on Six Sigma concept in several hospitals in the Netherlands

Read more...
 
Dietmar Stockl, QC Reality Check, Part Four PDF Print E-mail

Part three of an ongoing series on Internal Quality Control (IQC) by Dietmar Stockl. Dr. Stockl looks again at QC data examples from the real world of the laboratory, this time looking at the case when a laboratory purposes uses the wrong standard deviation.

Read more...
 
<< Start < Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next > End >>

Page 1 of 11