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NEW! Risk Analysis Guidelines Analysis

Get an overview of ISO standards 15189, 14971, and 22367 and CLSI guidelines EP18, EP22, and EP23. With Risk Management coming into medical laboratories, now is the time to learn these important Risk Analysis concepts recommended by these documents.

Introduction to Risk Analysis

New standards and guidelines for Quality are heading toward the lab, based on Risk Management principles. Learn all about them now.

Quality Management and Design of Analytical Systems (An Introduction)

Quality Planning and Design are part of a larger systems approach to analytical management. in this new six lesson course, participants will review current guidelines for quality and learn to use QC Design tools to customize their procedures and achieve the quality required by their tests.

Basic QC Practices

Our most popular course, covering the fundamentals of quality control in the laboratory.

Basic Method Validation

本课程教导所有的实验和计算ations needed for a basic validation of a new instrument. Linearity, Reportable Range, Comparison of Methods, Correlation, Replication, Interference, Recovery, Detection Limit and Reference Range studies are explained and demonstrated. Educational online tools allow participants to enter data and view results immediately.

Secrets of Method Validation Streaming Video course

A short animated slide show, narrated by Dr. Westgard, explaining the Inner, Hidden, Deeper, Secret Meaning of Method Validation

"Westgard Rules" and Levey-Jennings short course

Everything you ever wanted to know - and were afraid to ask - is included in this online course. All the rules, combinations, and interpretations are included. Online graphing tools allow you to enter data and see the interpretation.

Westgard QC, Inc. was the first company to offer accredited online courses through both the AACC and ASCLS. More than a thousand participants from over 30 countries have taken our online courses.

August 02, 2011

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

It's that time of year again, where the usual and not-so-usual suspects of the laboratory world gather and discuss science - mixed in with a healthy dose of commerce. We have just returned (and are still recovering from) the annual AACC/ASCLS meeting in Atlanta, Georgia.

James O. Westgard at the Westgard QC booth for the 2011 AACC/ASCLS exhibition

More pictures and details of the convention after the jump...

This year we spoke with over 700 people at the meeting, if you include those who attended the Method Evaluation workshop, or the Abbott Industry Workshop (Enhancing Laboratory Operations through Analytical Quality and Informatics) or the Bio-Rad Industry Workshop (Quality Control for the Future), and of course all the people who took the time to visit the Westgard QC booth.

[Full disclosure: Dr. Westgard was compensated for his participation in the Bio-Rad Industry Workshop. Sten Westgard was compensated for his participation in the Abbott Industry Workshop.]

In other words, we were busy.

A lull in activity at the booth. Just one person asking about books, and only person trying to have a serious discussion about quality with Dr. Westgard.

Given all the activity, we asked Liesje Goldschmidt to help out at the booth for part of the exhibition. Leisje is the daughter of Dr. Henk Goldschmidt - the organizer behind the annualQuality in the Spotlight conference in Antwerp. Liesje is a marketing expert in her own right, and much more outgoing than us mild-mannered midwesterners, so she was a perfect addition to our booth staff.

The Westgard QC 2011 booth staff: Sten, James, Liesje "an honorary Westgard for the meeting" Goldschmidt, and Joan

The new item Westgard QC was exhibiting was the latest book onSix Sigma Risk Analysis. While we await EP23 to become final and public, this new book gives laboratories not only a headstart on learing Risk Analysis techniques, but advocates also a more quantitative, data-driven approach than the usual Risk Management tools.